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Skin Deep · Chelsea Grin

EXERCISE 23 OF 77
Join Part H to Part K (bars 13-15)
40 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART K
PART H
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skin Deep on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-44, toms through bars 45-50 and snare through bars 51-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    69
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x-----------x---------------------------x---x---x---x---|
Skin Deep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- AS -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AV (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-17 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-23 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 13-25 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED