Skylines · TheWolfKing

137 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 37-39, and 10 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 156 BPM
SKYLINES · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 24, 36, 48, 64, 76 and 2 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 16 sections: 92 keep time, 8 are fills, 16 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART H
6 groovesCHAIS11+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skylines?

156 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 Skylines hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Skylines?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 24, 36, 48, 64, 76 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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