Scattered Corpses · PuDGE

176 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 5 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SCATTERED CORPSES · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 50, 67, 68, 71 and 12 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 87-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 15 sections: 106 keep time, 18 are fills, 34 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-126.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHCPABN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scattered Corpses?

120 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 Scattered Corpses hard to play on drums?

60 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Scattered Corpses?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 50, 67, 68, 71 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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