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Scars · I Prevail

EXERCISE 8 OF 36
Run E1 · Part E (bars 8-11)
29 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART B
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART S11
OUTRO
10 groovesJFNS11B+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scars on drums

66 bars, 3:48, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-11, snare through bars 12-14, toms through bars 15-23 and snare through bars 24-28, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 37-43 and 57-61 -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18                               19
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
T1 |--------------------------------|--------------------------xx----|
FT |--------------------------------|----------------------------xxxx|
BD |x-xx--x-------xxx--x--x---x--x--|x--x--x-------xxx--x--x---------|
Scars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 15, 16, 17, 32, 34 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-33 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-37 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Scars?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Scars hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Scars?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 15, 16, 17, 32, 34 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED