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Skylines · TheWolfKing

Skylines · TheWolfKing
EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART H
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCHAIS11+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skylines on drums

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

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Skylines -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-37 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-66 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-132 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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