ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scum Defection on drums

116 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 210 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 116
LENGTH: 2:12
DIFFICULTY: 100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-30 and toms through bars 31-34, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29-30, and 13 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|

Scum Defection -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 16, 26, 28, 31, 32 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 15-25 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
and 12 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Scum Defection?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Scum Defection hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 Scum Defection?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 16, 26, 28, 31, 32 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED