Sting In The Tail · Scorpions

118 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 14-16 and 18-19, and 21 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
STING IN THE TAIL · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 17, 57, 73, 81 and 93.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 9 sections: 102 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-117.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBIAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sting In The Tail?

148 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 Sting In The Tail hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sting In The Tail?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 17, 57, 73, 81 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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