Scum · Lovejoy

168 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 97-103 and 105-111 -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
SCUM · BAR 97
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 42, 44, 46 and 9 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 156 · LANDS ON BAR 157

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 14 sections: 89 keep time, 15 are fills, 15 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-155.

PART D
PART S4
PART D
PART F
PART M
PART S10
PART Q
PART S
OUTRO 2
12 groovesXDFSS4+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scum?

176 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 hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:49 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, high tom, mid tom, 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 Scum?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 42, 44, 46 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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