Scissorhands (The Last Snow) · Motionless In White

230 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 7:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 70-71, 73-74 and 76-77, and 13 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SCISSORHANDS (THE LAST SNOW) · BARS 70-71
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 20 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 9-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 17 sections: 143 keep time, 26 are fills, 17 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 182-198.

PART H
PART J
PART S
CHORUS
PART U
PART S8
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
15 groovesYHJUO+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scissorhands (The Last Snow)?

130 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 Scissorhands (The Last Snow) hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 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 Scissorhands (The Last Snow)?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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