Mr. Scary · Dokken

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15-19 and 21-25, and 18 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 109 BPM
MR. SCARY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 30, 35, 36, 38, 39 and 22 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time, 28 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-117.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
5 groovesEGS1US2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Scary?

109 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Mr. Scary hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Mr. Scary?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 30, 35, 36, 38, 39 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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