skides · kiko

64 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 21-24 and 33-36, and 1 more place -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SKIDES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 56.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 8 sections: 39 keep time, 2 are fills, 16 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDAS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is skides?

120 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 skides hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in skides?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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