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Skin · Apparition status

Skin · Apparition status
EXERCISE 7 OF 34
Run C1 · Part C (bars 6-9)
42 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART B
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJEBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skin on drums

90 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-13, ride through bars 14-18, snare through bars 19-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-26, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 10-13 and 34-37, and 2 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-14 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 12-23 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-34 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-60 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Skin?

180 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 Skin hard to play on drums?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Skin?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED