Skyhunter · Dethklok

186 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-24 and 26-40, and 3 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SKYHUNTER · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 25, 41, 49, 65, 81 and 12 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 10 sections: 154 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

CHORUS
PART H
PART D
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDHKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skyhunter?

190 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 Skyhunter hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Skyhunter?

16 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 25, 41, 49, 65, 81 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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