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Scare Crow · Ministry

EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Fill at bar 31 (a small one)
76 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scare Crow on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-80.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx------xx------|
Scare Crow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED