Scars of the Crucifix · Deicide

139 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 28-33 and 120-125, and 1 more place -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SCARS OF THE CRUCIFIX · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 43, 45, 51, 53, 74, 76 and 7 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 139
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 13 sections: 112 keep time and 13 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-73.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART I
7 groovesMECFI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scars of the Crucifix?

190 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 Scars of the Crucifix hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 17 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 of the Crucifix?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 43, 45, 51, 53, 74, 76 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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