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Scourge of the Offspring · Cattle Decapitation

EXERCISE 14 OF 77
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
66 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AX
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAIAXBQW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scourge of the Offspring on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
85/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-25 and snare through bars 26-31, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-74, 77-80 and 83-86, and 5 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Scourge of the Offspring -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 16, 17 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AX, Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Scourge of the Offspring?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Scourge of the Offspring hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Scourge of the Offspring?

16 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 16, 17 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED