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Sting In The Tail · Scorpions

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove B -- Part B
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sting In The Tail on drums

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

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 2-118.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sting In The Tail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-82 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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