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Thru Our Scars · Fleshgod Apocalypse

EXERCISE 5 OF 94
5-bar fill at bar 52 and 4 more
88 / 387 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART AK
PART AS
CHORUS 2
PART BA
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesXAKMBGBA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thru Our Scars on drums

387 bars at 280 BPM -- fast, and 5:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
280 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
387
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
74/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-3, silence through bars 4-8, ride through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16 and ride through bars 17-18, and 64 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 125-130, 133-138 and 141-146, and 8 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    126
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--------o-------|
SD |x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Thru Our Scars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 206 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 200 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- AK -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- BG -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-28 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 1-40 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thru Our Scars?

280 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 Thru Our Scars hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

387 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 27 sittings, about 23 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 Thru Our Scars?

23 fills to learn, played 206 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 200 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 387 BARS ANALYSED