Skepsis Part I · Der Weg Einer Freiheit

197 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-72, 106-111 and 122-127 -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
SKEPSIS PART I · BAR 107
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 25 and 34 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 22 sections: 95 keep time, 40 are fills and 36 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-86.

PART B
PART H
PART T
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART AB
OUTRO
14 groovesSHABAIE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skepsis Part I?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Skepsis Part I hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Skepsis Part I?

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 25 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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