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Salamander · Futakuchi Mana | 二口魔菜

Salamander · Futakuchi Mana | 二口魔菜
EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART O, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART S11
BREAK 3
OUTRO
13 groovesFOAGKY+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Salamander on drums

115 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-31 and toms through bars 32-33, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 5 more places -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
Salamander -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 13, 17, 21, 25, 32 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-33 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-55 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-69 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Salamander?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Salamander hard to play on drums?

49 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Salamander?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 13, 17, 21, 25, 32 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED