Skins スキンズ · Asian Kung-fu Generation

128 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 21-25 and 31-32, and 4 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SKINS スキンズ · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 33, 56, 57, 58, 86 and 8 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 18 sections: 89 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-55.

PART E
PART L
VERSE 2
CHORUS 4
PART W
PART Y
PART Q
VERSE 3
OUTRO
12 groovesDJLEW+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skins スキンズ?

125 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 Skins スキンズ hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Skins スキンズ?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 33, 56, 57, 58, 86 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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