Scratch The Surface · Sick Of It All

112 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 29-35 and 57-63, and 1 more place -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 174 BPM
SCRATCH THE SURFACE · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 36, 52, 64 and 4 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 10 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-35.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGDLAK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scratch The Surface?

174 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 Scratch The Surface hard to play on drums?

45 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Scratch The Surface?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 36, 52, 64 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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