Scattered Sprites · Car Bomb

146 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 48, 53, 59 and 10 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 27-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 17 sections: 82 keep time, 16 are fills, 28 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-97.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART U
PART S
PART AP
PART AS
PART AO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAKUAOAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scattered Sprites?

148 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 Scattered Sprites hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Scattered Sprites?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 48, 53, 59 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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