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Scream Thy Last Scream · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 20 OF 43
Run Q1 · Chorus (bars 20-42)
84 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scream Thy Last Scream on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-22, snare through bars 23-26 and ride through bars 27-28, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Scream Thy Last Scream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 16, 17, 20, 27 and 4 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 -- Q, J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-33 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 45-69 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-83 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-108 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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