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SKYWALKER · KLON

SKYWALKER · KLON
EXERCISE 9 OF 9
Play the whole song with the record
94 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 120 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
PART C
CHORUS 4
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesAS2S9S6C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SKYWALKER on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, silence through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, silence through bars 49-51, hi-hat through bars 52-56 and silence through bars 57-63, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-24, and 6 more places -- 88.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 23-89 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is SKYWALKER?

116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 SKYWALKER 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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