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Skin · B'Z

EXERCISE 20 OF 44
Join Chorus 2 to Part F (bars 24-26)
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0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART F
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBFMES1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skin on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, ride through bars 38-46, hi-hat through bars 47-60 and ride through bars 61-67, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-12 and 27-28, and 2 more places -- 15.7% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x---x-x-----------|
Skin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 17, 21, 25, 33, 35 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F, M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-6 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-38 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-36 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 41-60 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Skin?

83 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Skin hard to play on drums?

63 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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?

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 17, 21, 25, 33, 35 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED