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EXERCISE 2 OF 46
Groove C -- Chorus
20 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART S6
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCHJVS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play scary bus on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, toms through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-56, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 2 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73                                               74
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x-----x-----------------x--x--x--x--|x-----x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------|
scary bus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 32, 42, 44 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-50 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is scary bus?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 scary bus hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 scary bus?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 32, 42, 44 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED