Scarred for Life · Rose Tattoo

11 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-10 -- 55.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
SCARRED FOR LIFE · BARS 6-7
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars across 3 sections: 7 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-11.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesES2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scarred for Life?

126 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 Scarred for Life hard to play on drums?

45 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?

11 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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