Scars · Papa Roach

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 33-35, and 5 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SCARS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 32 and 48.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-76.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scars?

90 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?

59 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 32 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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