Salt · Dead Poet Society

51 bars, 2:43, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 20-22 and 36-43 -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
SALT · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 27, 31, 47 and 51.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 51
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 7 sections: 38 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAGBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Salt?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Salt hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Salt?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 27, 31, 47 and 51.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 51 BARS ANALYSED
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