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Scattered Mice · Dying Resonance

Scattered Mice · Dying Resonance
EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove G -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 70 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scattered Mice on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-61, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10                               11
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-------------x-------x---|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----------------|
Scattered Mice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- G, U -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-45 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Break and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-59 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-130 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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