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Scars · X JAPAN

EXERCISE 33 OF 58
5-bar fill at bar 103
167 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scars on drums

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.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-15, hi-hat through bars 16-41, ride through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-45 and ride through bars 46-47, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
Scars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- F, G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 40-124 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-69 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 81-108 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 103-127 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 124-141 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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