Reward the Scars · Korn

103 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 47-49 and 51-53, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
REWARD THE SCARS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 22, 23, 24, 44, 45 and 12 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 13 sections: 69 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-77.

PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKCFSU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reward the Scars?

116 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 Reward the Scars hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Reward the Scars?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 22, 23, 24, 44, 45 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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