Scare Crow · Ministry

80 bars, 4:16, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-30 and 33-44, and 6 more places -- 88.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
SCARE CROW · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 31, 53 and 57.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 2 sections: 76 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-30.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scare Crow?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Scare Crow hard to play on drums?

49 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Scare Crow?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 31, 53 and 57.

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