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Skyfall (AI Tab) · Helloween

EXERCISE 28 OF 135
Fill at bar 73, 196, 198 and 2 more (a small one)
141 / 284 BARS COVERED
0 / 135 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 4
PART H
CHORUS
PART AE
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
18 groovesRHAENY+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 36
LAND · 36
RUN · 4
JOIN · 22
LINK · 9
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skyfall (AI Tab) on drums

284 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 7:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
284
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-21, silence through bars 22-24, toms through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-37, and 43 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64, 66 and 68, and 13 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Skyfall (AI Tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

36 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 31, 32, 44, 45, 53, 60 and 77 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 98 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-56 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-64 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Skyfall (AI Tab)?

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

Is Skyfall (AI Tab) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

284 bars, about 7:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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 (AI Tab)?

36 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 31, 32, 44, 45, 53, 60 and 77 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 284 BARS ANALYSED