The Scarecrow · Avantasia

253 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 10:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
253
LENGTH
10:39
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 21-22 and 26-32, and 10 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
THE SCARECROW · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 17, 24, 25, 41, 45 and 17 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

253 bars across 19 sections: 170 keep time, 23 are fills, 24 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-141.

PART E
PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART AP
OUTRO
13 groovesYENAAP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Scarecrow?

95 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 The Scarecrow hard to play on drums?

47 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

253 bars, about 10:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Scarecrow?

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 17, 24, 25, 41, 45 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 253 BARS ANALYSED
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