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The Scarecrow · Avantasia

EXERCISE 12 OF 79
Groove I
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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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Scarecrow on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
253
LENGTH
10:39
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-42, toms through bars 43-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-53, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- E, N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-82 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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