Under Your Scars · Godsmack

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-24 and 40-42, and 3 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
UNDER YOUR SCARS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 25, 30, 37 and 17 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 9 sections: 37 keep time, 23 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART E
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEJOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Under Your Scars?

82 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 Under Your Scars hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Under Your Scars?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 25, 30, 37 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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