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Sky line · Erra

EXERCISE 9 OF 64
Join Break to Chorus (bars 12-14)
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COUNT-IN
BREAK
CHORUS
PART S
PART R
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDRIHS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sky line on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, ride through bars 31-35, hi-hat through bars 36-40 and snare through bars 41-80, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44 and 55-57, and 8 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 13, 24, 32, 40, 41 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- R, H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-31 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 28-38 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-42 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sky line?

128 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 line hard to play on drums?

54 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 line?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 13, 24, 32, 40, 41 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED