Scars · X JAPAN

193 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 37 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SCARS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 63, 65, 73 and 16 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 15 sections: 144 keep time, 22 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 178-193.

PART C
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFGCIAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scars?

160 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 hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Scars?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 63, 65, 73 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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