Skin & Bones. · RAYE, Rachel Keen, Mike Sabath, Pete Clements

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 61-84 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SKIN & BONES. · BARS 61-62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 26, 31, 50, 56 and 57.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 6 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-84.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEQDHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skin & Bones.?

105 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 Skin & Bones. hard to play on drums?

55 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Skin & Bones.?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 26, 31, 50, 56 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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