Sky Is Over · Serj Tankian

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 35 and 38, and 4 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
SKY IS OVER · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 27, 39, 63, 71 and 72.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 7 sections: 43 keep time, 6 are fills, 7 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-62.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesES1BMHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sky Is Over?

104 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 Sky Is Over hard to play on drums?

57 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Sky Is Over?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 27, 39, 63, 71 and 72.

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