Scott Pilgrim vs. My GPA · Mom Jeans.

141 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 164 BPM, 2:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-20 and 22-32 -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. MY GPA · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 33, 37, 85, 113, 114 and 9 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 113-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 13 sections: 66 keep time, 15 are fills, 46 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-21.

PART C
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART T
PART AH
13 groovesACGTI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scott Pilgrim vs. My GPA?

164 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Scott Pilgrim vs. My GPA hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 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 Scott Pilgrim vs. My GPA?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 33, 37, 85, 113, 114 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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