Scars to Your Beautiful · Alessia Cara

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 23-32 and 49-72, and 1 more place -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 97 BPM
SCARS TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 14 sections: 75 keep time, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-74.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesFECS12A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scars to Your Beautiful?

97 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 to Your Beautiful hard to play on drums?

33 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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