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Scars · Papa Roach

EXERCISE 13 OF 18
Groove I -- Outro
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scars on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-77.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---xx--x---x|
Scars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-49 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-64 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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