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Scissorhands (The Last Snow) · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 1 OF 78
Groove Y -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scissorhands (The Last Snow) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, ride through bars 43-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-69, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    70               71
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|--x---x-x-----x-|
Scissorhands (The Last Snow) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- Y, H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-32 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-206 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-100 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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