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Scott Pilgrim vs. My GPA · Mom Jeans.

EXERCISE 5 OF 45
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
42 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scott Pilgrim vs. My GPA on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-37, ride through bars 38-53, snare through bars 54-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-104, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6            7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |----x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------------|x-----------|
BD |x-----------|------x---x-|
Scott Pilgrim vs. My GPA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C, G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 37-67 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 66-107 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part T and Part AH -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part AH and Part AM -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 130-141 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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