Skulls and Candles · Dopelord

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5-23 and 25, and 15 more places -- 63.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SKULLS AND CANDLES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 44, 48, 52 and 6 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 3 sections: 39 keep time, 12 are fills and 40 are stops.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAMBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skulls and Candles?

100 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 Skulls and Candles hard to play on drums?

45 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 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 Skulls and Candles?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 44, 48, 52 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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