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Beauty of a Scar · Mock Orange

Beauty of a Scar · Mock Orange
EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove O -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beauty of a Scar on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 3-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-39, toms through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-43 and toms through bars 44-45, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24-30, 32-38 and 65, and 2 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24                               25
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------------------------------|------------------------|
HH |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----gg--x-----x-------|------x---x-------x-----|
BD |x---------------x-----x---x---x-|x-------------x-x-----x-|
Beauty of a Scar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Break -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-59 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 5-31 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED