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Skepsis, Pt. I · Der Weg Einer Freiheit

EXERCISE 5 OF 94
Groove AO -- Part AO (a two-bar phrase)
22 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AI, PART AO, PART AR
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AI
PART AO
PART AR
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEARAOCBA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skepsis, Pt. I on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-77, snare through bars 78-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-90, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Skepsis, Pt. I -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO, AG -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-25 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-42 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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