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Scream · Tokio Hotel

EXERCISE 12 OF 52
7-bar fill at bar 51
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0 / 52 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 3
PART B
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJFHBY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scream on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, ride through bars 29-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-47, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 5 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 19, 21, 23, 25, 37 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- J -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-58 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-47 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-63 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Scream?

94 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 hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 19, 21, 23, 25, 37 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED