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Scar Tissue · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 4 OF 33
Groove C
47 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDLAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scar Tissue on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-38, hi-hat through bars 39-44, ride through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-62, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 13-15, and 7 more places -- 37.3% 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
HH |X-x-X-x-X-X-o-o-|
SD |-g--xg-X----xg-g|
BD |X--x-----xx-----|
HF |X---------------|
Scar Tissue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 22, 26, 38 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-39 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Scar Tissue?

89 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 Tissue hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 22, 26, 38 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED