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Skinned With Barbed Wire · Drug Slut

EXERCISE 8 OF 55
Groove M
96 / 218 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AB
CHORUS 3
PART T
15 groovesABPTDN+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skinned With Barbed Wire on drums

212 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 7:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
7:55
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-21, ride through bars 22-24 and kick and crashes through bars 25-31, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 6 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Skinned With Barbed Wire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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, T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-62 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-73 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-78 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Skinned With Barbed Wire?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Skinned With Barbed Wire hard to play on drums?

54 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 7:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Skinned With Barbed Wire?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED