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Skin Milk · 200 Stab Wounds

EXERCISE 12 OF 43
Groove O -- Chorus
24 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesODAGAMA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skin Milk on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
92/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, ride through bars 15-19, hi-hat through bars 20-26, ride through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-30 and ride through bars 31-34, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8 -- 9.8% 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---|
FT |XXX-X-X-X-X-X-X-XXX-X-X-X-X-X-X-|
Skin Milk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 10, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Skin Milk?

100 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 Milk hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Milk?

8 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 10, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED