Skeletons Of Society · Slayer

123 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 4 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SKELETONS OF SOCIETY · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 18, 26, 36, 38, 39, 40 and 35 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 13 sections: 62 keep time, 41 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-63.

PART D
PART F
PART O
PART S
CHORUS
PART O
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesYSOFD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skeletons Of Society?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Skeletons Of Society hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 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 Skeletons Of Society?

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 18, 26, 36, 38, 39, 40 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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