Scared · Dangerous Toys

147 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 27-28 and 38-45, and 4 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
SCARED · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 53.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 12 sections: 128 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-147.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART G
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCGS11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scared?

144 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 Scared hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Scared?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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