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Skeptic · Driveways

Skeptic · Driveways
EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBTS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skeptic on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-24, snare through bars 25-34, toms through bars 35-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-57, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-x-----x-xx|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-------x-----|
Skeptic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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