Your Skull Is Red · Team Sleep

52 bars, 3:04, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 14 and 26 -- 5.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 68 BPM
YOUR SKULL IS RED · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17 and 17 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 10-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 22-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 3 sections: 27 keep time, 24 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Your Skull Is Red?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Your Skull Is Red hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Your Skull Is Red?

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
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