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Under My Skin · Mudvayne

EXERCISE 8 OF 80
Groove F
24 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART K
PART B
PART X
PART AD
PART Q
PART AY
OUTRO 2
10 groovesADTBKQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Under My Skin on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, snare through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-41, ride through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-76 and snare through bars 77-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4 and 26-28 -- 5.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x---|
Under My Skin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 13, 17, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 7-14 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Under My Skin?

120 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 Under My Skin hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Under My Skin?

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 13, 17, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED