ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scum on drums

102 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 155 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 102
LENGTH: 2:36
DIFFICULTY: 78/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-21, snare through bars 22-25, ride through bars 26-29, snare through bars 30-34 and ride through bars 35-57, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 6 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 51, 52, 78 and 88.

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.

The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 22-47 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part D and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Scum?

155 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?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

102 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 51, 52, 78 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED