Curse of the Scarecrow · From The Depths

103 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 18-20 and 34-36, and 3 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.

LOOP · 160 BPM
CURSE OF THE SCARECROW · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 7, 17, 25, 29, 41 and 9 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 18 sections: 48 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-67.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART M
PART Q
PART B
BREAK
6 groovesHFBS18Q+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Curse of the Scarecrow?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Curse of the Scarecrow hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Curse of the Scarecrow?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 7, 17, 25, 29, 41 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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