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Unskinny Bop · Poison

EXERCISE 24 OF 58
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 29-31)
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0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJEQCU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unskinny Bop on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, ride through bars 19-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38 and ride through bars 39-66, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 43, and 9 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Unskinny Bop -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-31 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-43 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unskinny Bop?

92 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 Unskinny Bop hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 Unskinny Bop?

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED