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

Skin & Bones. · RAYE, Rachel Keen, Mike Sabath, Pete Clements
EXERCISE 24 OF 27
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 56-58)
80 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEQDHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skin & Bones. on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-84.

The beat

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.

    61               62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |--x-x--x-x----x-|-x--x--x-x--x---|
BD |x---------x--x--|--x--x----x--x--|
Skin & Bones. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- Q, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-54 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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