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The Scourge · Periphery

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove H -- Part H
0 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Scourge on drums

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.

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

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

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-21, snare through bars 22-26, hi-hat through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-36 and silence through bars 37-42, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
CC |x---------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-x-----x---x-|
The Scourge -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-29 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-36 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-72 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-80 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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