A Tale of Salt and Light · Mental Cruelty

220 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
7:11
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 13 more places -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
A TALE OF SALT AND LIGHT · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 17, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45 and 53 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 49-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 26 sections: 85 keep time, 59 are fills, 24 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

PART B
PART S4
CHORUS
CHORUS 4
PART BE
PART BO
BREAK
16 groovesWBNS4BO+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Tale of Salt and Light?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 A Tale of Salt and Light hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 7:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 29 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 A Tale of Salt and Light?

30 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 17, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
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