Ocean Breathes Salty · Modest Mouse

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 25-32 and 65-80 -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 93 BPM
OCEAN BREATHES SALTY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 24, 40 and 48.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 9 sections: 73 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-83.

INTRO
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADHBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ocean Breathes Salty?

93 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 Ocean Breathes Salty hard to play on drums?

60 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?

90 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Ocean Breathes Salty?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 24, 40 and 48.

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