The Scorpion · Megadeth

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 24-30 and 63-69, and 4 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 101 BPM
THE SCORPION · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 7, 39, 51, 61, 86 and 4 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 11 are fills, 14 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-34.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART J
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFJQS2S12+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Scorpion?

101 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Scorpion hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 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 Scorpion?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 7, 39, 51, 61, 86 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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