Scarlet · Periphery

179 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 6 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SCARLET · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 38, 46, 77, 80, 86, 94 and 26 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 20 sections: 120 keep time, 32 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-34.

CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART AJ
PART E
PART AV
PART C
PART G
12 groovesKGPEAJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scarlet?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Scarlet hard to play on drums?

61 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 38, 46, 77, 80, 86, 94 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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