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Skyhunter · Dethklok

EXERCISE 19 OF 55
Groove K -- Part K
141 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skyhunter on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-64 and snare through bars 65-81, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-66 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 78-174 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 113-133 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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