The Scourge · Periphery

124 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-24 and 26-27 -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 149 BPM
THE SCOURGE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 14, 25, 28, 32, 35 and 15 more.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 42 keep time, 21 are fills, 15 are stops and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-24.

PART B
PART H
PART K
PART S5
PART R
PART S
PART T
OUTRO
BREAK 2
12 groovesS12VTHB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Scourge?

149 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 Scourge hard to play on drums?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Scourge?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 14, 25, 28, 32, 35 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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