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Skin Tight · Suicide Silence

EXERCISE 20 OF 75
Fill at bar 36, 44, 76 and 3 more (a small one)
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PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKFAMQAS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skin Tight on drums

173 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-62 and toms through bars 63-64, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 37-38 and 41-42, and 9 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxx--x-----|
Skin Tight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 31, 32, 36 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- P, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-33 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-98 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-151 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Skin Tight?

160 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 Tight hard to play on drums?

50 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Tight?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 31, 32, 36 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED