Paul Gilbert - Scarified · Ed Kovach

94 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-20 and 23-24, and 3 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
PAUL GILBERT - SCARIFIED · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 59, 67, 72, 73, 74 and 94.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 72-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 94
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 10 sections: 73 keep time, 6 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEANLS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paul Gilbert - Scarified?

140 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 Paul Gilbert - Scarified hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Paul Gilbert - Scarified?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 59, 67, 72, 73, 74 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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