Scars in the Landscape of God · Abigor

298 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
298
LENGTH
8:30
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 105-107, 111 and 113, and 5 more places -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SCARS IN THE LANDSCAPE OF GOD · BAR 105
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

56 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 24, 27 and 86 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

52 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

298 bars across 24 sections: 155 keep time, 92 are fills, 22 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-23.

PART I
PART M
PART V
PART AB
PART AI
PART AX
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART BW
PART CZ
16 groovesBJAXVBWAI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scars in the Landscape of God?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Scars in the Landscape of God hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

298 bars, about 8:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 136 exercises over 41 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 Scars in the Landscape of God?

56 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 24, 27 and 86 more.

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