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Skin O' My Teeth · Megadeth

EXERCISE 3 OF 30
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
71 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skin O' My Teeth on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-5, silence through bars 6-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-43 and silence through bars 44-45, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|--x-----x-x-----|
Skin O' My Teeth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 3-37 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-61 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 75-152 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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