Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY (Bones) · Will Wood And The Tapeworms

116 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-44 and 51-68, and 2 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SKELETON APPRECIATION DAY IN VESTAL, NY (BONES) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 5 sections: 106 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-70.

CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEHIAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY (Bones)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY (Bones) hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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