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Bath Salts · Highly Suspect

EXERCISE 31 OF 34
2-bar fill at bar 116
126 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bath Salts on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-61, snare through bars 62-77, hi-hat through bars 78-86, silence through bars 87-101 and snare through bars 102-117, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 23-24 and 29-33, and 11 more places -- 58.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--------------------|
Bath Salts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 46, 61, 65, 68, 69, 77 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Bath Salts?

127 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 Bath Salts hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bath Salts?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 46, 61, 65, 68, 69, 77 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED