These Scars Are My Epitaph · Vasariah

110 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 1 more place -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
THESE SCARS ARE MY EPITAPH · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 18 and 16 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 9 sections: 55 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-70.

CHORUS
PART I
PART P
PART U
PART AF
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS7AIUP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is These Scars Are My Epitaph?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is These Scars Are My Epitaph hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 These Scars Are My Epitaph?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 18 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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