Scream Thy Last Scream · Pink Floyd

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 33-42 and 47-67, and 1 more place -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SCREAM THY LAST SCREAM · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 16, 17, 20, 27 and 4 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 13 sections: 78 keep time, 10 are fills, 17 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-67.

PART A
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART AD
OUTRO 2
10 groovesQJADAY+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scream Thy Last Scream?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Scream Thy Last Scream hard to play on drums?

46 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Scream Thy Last Scream?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 16, 17, 20, 27 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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