Shimmering Scars · Muse

111 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 5 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
SHIMMERING SCARS · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 28, 36, 37, 38, 68, 78 and 18 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 94-110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 7 sections: 75 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-59.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDTMBS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shimmering Scars?

143 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 Shimmering Scars hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 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 Shimmering Scars?

4 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 28, 36, 37, 38, 68, 78 and 18 more.

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