Skin Deep · Chelsea Grin

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69, 73 and 77, and 4 more places -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 107 BPM
SKIN DEEP · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 24 and 18 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 13 sections: 48 keep time, 24 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-44.

PART K
PART T
PART X
PART AI
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesASTXQK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skin Deep?

107 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 Deep hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Deep?

21 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 24 and 18 more.

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