Scarlet Begonias · Grateful Dead

230 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 10:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
10:48
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 104-108, 110-111 and 119-120, and 4 more places -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
SCARLET BEGONIAS · BAR 104
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 94 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 28 and 88 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 24 sections: 98 keep time and 94 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 218-230.

PART AC
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
17 groovesBXKEEAAC+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scarlet Begonias?

82 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 Scarlet Begonias hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 10:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 94 exercises over 36 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Scarlet Begonias?

18 fills to learn, played 94 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 28 and 88 more.

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