MS Salmonella · Lifelover

164 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16 and 101-108 -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MS SALMONELLA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 10 sections: 45 keep time, 80 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S4
PART S6
BREAK 3
OUTRO
8 groovesBS10AS4S6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is MS Salmonella?

140 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 MS Salmonella hard to play on drums?

33 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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