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Reward the Scars · Korn

EXERCISE 5 OF 52
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
49 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reward the Scars on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-46, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|
Reward the Scars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- K, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-25 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-55 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-62 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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