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Skipping Tiles · julie

EXERCISE 17 OF 30
Join Chorus to Part P (bars 42-44)
63 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART P
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHCS1PFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skipping Tiles on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-22, ride through bars 23-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49, ride through bars 50-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-79.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--g----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Skipping Tiles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-64 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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