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Earth Scar · Decapitated

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove L -- Part L
0 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART L, PART M
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
PART M
BREAK
7 groovesCHLS9M+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Earth Scar on drums

193 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 4:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80, snare through bars 81-96 and ride through bars 97-110, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-100, 102-104 and 106-108, and 9 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Earth Scar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 40, 56, 64 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-84 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Earth Scar?

188 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 Earth Scar hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Earth Scar?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 40, 56, 64 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED