Scattered Mice · Dying Resonance

216 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 9 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SCATTERED MICE · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 52, 77, 85 and 10 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 21 sections: 161 keep time, 16 are fills, 16 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 205-221.

CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGUORAH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scattered Mice?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Scattered Mice hard to play on drums?

64 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 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 Mice?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 52, 77, 85 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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