Static in Screams · Ghost In The Mirror

202 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 36 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
STATIC IN SCREAMS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 33, 34, 50 and 32 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 18 sections: 86 keep time, 38 are fills, 36 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 191-202.

PART I
PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesUANIJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Static in Screams?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Static in Screams hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Static in Screams?

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 33, 34, 50 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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