Scavenger Of Human Sorrow · Death

268 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 7:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
7:35
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 10 and 13-14, and 11 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 149 BPM
SCAVENGER OF HUMAN SORROW · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 36 more.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

268 bars across 27 sections: 169 keep time, 42 are fills and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-45.

CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AE
PART BN
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART AE
OUTRO
BREAK 3
16 groovesGAEBBTBN+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scavenger Of Human Sorrow?

149 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 Scavenger Of Human Sorrow hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 7:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Scavenger Of Human Sorrow?

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 36 more.

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