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Skyfall · Adele

EXERCISE 26 OF 30
Groove L
64 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGBJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skyfall on drums

73 bars, 3:54, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-71 and ride through bars 72-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 31, 32, 56, 64 and 70.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-33 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-41 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Skyfall?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Skyfall hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 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 Skyfall?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 31, 32, 56, 64 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED