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Skyhunter (Live Version) · Dethklok

EXERCISE 2 OF 56
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skyhunter (Live Version) on drums

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

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
83/100

ride through bars 1-2 and toms through bars 3-93.

The beat

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.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
FT |x---------------x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxx-x-x-x-xxxxxxxxx-x-x-x-|
Skyhunter (Live Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-17 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-33 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-41 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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