Skum prog riff · Matriphagy

16 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 0:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
16
LENGTH
0:28
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11 -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SKUM PROG RIFF · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 12.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

19 bars across 2 sections: 13 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skum prog riff?

170 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Skum prog riff hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

16 bars, about 0:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 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 Skum prog riff?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 12.

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