Skeleton Dance · Arch Enemy

164 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-50, 52 and 55-56, and 5 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SKELETON DANCE · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 18, 24, 26, 42, 43 and 20 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 15 sections: 94 keep time, 26 are fills, 14 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-56.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART K
12 groovesDUKS1N+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skeleton Dance?

140 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 Dance hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Skeleton Dance?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 18, 24, 26, 42, 43 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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