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Mr. Scary · Dokken

EXERCISE 27 OF 38
Groove U -- Verse
92 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
VERSE
OUTRO
5 groovesEGS1US2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Scary on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-7, ride through bars 8-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30, ride through bars 31-34 and snare through bars 35-36, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-31 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-44 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-72 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-80 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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