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Skulls and Candles · Dopelord

Skulls and Candles · Dopelord
EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Join Part B to Outro (bars 4-6)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAMBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skulls and Candles on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
45/100

ride through bars 1-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-62, ride through bars 63-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-66, ride through bars 67-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-84, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Skulls and Candles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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