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Scar · Missy Higgins

Scar · Missy Higgins
EXERCISE 28 OF 37
Groove T
67 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART P
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEAPUS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scar on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-16, ride through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-45 and ride through bars 46-47, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 14 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x------xx----|
Scar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 16, 24 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-17 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Scar?

92 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 Scar hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Scar?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 16, 24 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED