Skipping Tiles · julie

79 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 10 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
SKIPPING TILES · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 13, 30, 45, 53, 67 and 3 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 6 sections: 54 keep time, 9 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-42.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHCS1PFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skipping Tiles?

145 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 Skipping Tiles hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Skipping Tiles?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 13, 30, 45, 53, 67 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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