Skin O' My Teeth · Megadeth

158 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-26, 46-59 and 79-83, and 7 more places -- 51.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SKIN O' MY TEETH · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 27, 28, 36 and 14 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 14 sections: 108 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-26.

CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART S10
CHORUS 5
PART K
7 groovesGKS10S2S13+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skin O' My Teeth?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Skin O' My Teeth hard to play on drums?

49 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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 O' My Teeth?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 27, 28, 36 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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