Beauty of a Scar · Mock Orange

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 53, 57, 61 and 10 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 9 sections: 74 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-50.

PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesOIDTR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beauty of a Scar?

92 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 Beauty of a Scar hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Beauty of a Scar?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 53, 57, 61 and 10 more.

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