Skepsis, Pt. I · Der Weg Einer Freiheit

205 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 4:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 20 and 25-31, and 7 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 167 BPM
SKEPSIS, PT. I · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 10, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24 and 46 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 19 sections: 96 keep time, 52 are fills, 31 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-127.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEARAOCBA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skepsis, Pt. I?

167 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, Pt. I hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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, Pt. I?

21 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 10, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
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