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These Scars Are My Epitaph · Vasariah

EXERCISE 19 OF 53
2-bar fill at bar 33
40 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play These Scars Are My Epitaph on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
70/100

ride through bars 1-37, hi-hat through bars 38-43, toms through bars 44-45, hi-hat through bars 46-64, toms through bars 65-70 and silence through bars 71-94, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---X-------X---|X---X-------x---|
RD |--------X-------|--------X-------|
SD |--------X-----X-|--------X-----X-|
FT |----------X-----|----------------|
BD |Xxx-xxx-----xxx-|Xxx-X-x---x-x---|
These Scars Are My Epitaph -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part AF -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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