Scorched earth · Dissolved

162 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 68, and 9 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SCORCHED EARTH · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22 and 25 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 15 sections: 103 keep time, 31 are fills, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 142-155.

PART G
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AF
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
9 groovesBUGLY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scorched earth?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Scorched earth hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 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 Scorched earth?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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