scars · novulent

28 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 1:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
28
LENGTH
1:20
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 10-12 and 21-24, and 1 more place -- 55.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
SCARS · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

28 bars across 4 sections: 18 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is scars?

84 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 scars hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

28 bars, about 1:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 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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