Skyhunter (Live Version) · Dethklok

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39 and 65-72 -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
SKYHUNTER (LIVE VERSION) · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 16, 20 and 13 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 12 sections: 62 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
PART N
PART P
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDILNU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skyhunter (Live Version)?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Skyhunter (Live Version) hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Skyhunter (Live Version)?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 16, 20 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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