Skeptic · Driveways

88 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-31, 41-55 and 71, and 1 more place -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
SKEPTIC · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 15 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 32-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 66-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 7 sections: 56 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-55.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBTS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skeptic?

126 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 Skeptic hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Skeptic?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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