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Wall Of Skulls · Judiciary
EXERCISE 15 OF 57
2-bar fill at bar 15
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0 / 57 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART G
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART S6
PART AE
OUTRO
8 groovesOGAES6L+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wall Of Skulls on drums

99 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25 and snare through bars 26-32, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Wall Of Skulls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- H, G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-17 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wall Of Skulls?

155 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 Wall Of Skulls hard to play on drums?

47 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Wall Of Skulls?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED