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Sky Is Over · Serj Tankian

Sky Is Over · Serj Tankian
EXERCISE 25 OF 28
2-bar fill at bar 71
58 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sky Is Over on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-27, hi-hat through bars 28-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-43 and toms through bars 44-51, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g---g---g---g---|
SD |g---x---g---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Sky Is Over -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-36 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-51 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED