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Scum · Lovejoy

EXERCISE 26 OF 46
Run S71 · Part S7 (bars 65-70)
105 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S7
PART D
PART S4
PART D
PART F
PART S7
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scum on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, silence through bars 25-48, hi-hat through bars 49-65, silence through bars 66-68, toms through bars 69-70 and ride through bars 71-76, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    97
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Scum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 42, 44, 46 and 9 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 -- Q, S -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-39 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-65 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part S7 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-111 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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