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Scrapie · Bumblefoot

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove B -- Chorus 3
0 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesBACS13FFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scrapie on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-19, ride through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-56, ride through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-93, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 28-31 and 39, and 8 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    39
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x---------------------x-|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x--x--------x-----|
BD |x--x-----------x------x-|
Scrapie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 40, 46, 50, 56, 76 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-36 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part A -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-79 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Scrapie?

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 Scrapie hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 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 Scrapie?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 40, 46, 50, 56, 76 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED