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Shimmering Scars · Muse

EXERCISE 18 OF 30
Groove M -- Part M (a two-bar phrase)
70 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDTMBS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shimmering Scars on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, ride through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-59, hi-hat through bars 60-94 and ride through bars 95-111.

The beat

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.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---x-xxx-x-|x-o-x-x-x-x-x--g|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|--x-------------|
Shimmering Scars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 36-63 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED