Skullcrush · Scorching Tomb

96 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 9-11, and 7 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SKULLCRUSH · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 7, 15, 23, 25, 29, 31 and 23 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 7 sections: 36 keep time, 31 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-39.

CHORUS
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO 2
5 groovesARLGADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skullcrush?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Skullcrush hard to play on drums?

63 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 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 Skullcrush?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 7, 15, 23, 25, 29, 31 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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