Salt Mine (From the album Misery Index) · Assück

57 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
1:26
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 43-45, and 1 more place -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SALT MINE (FROM THE ALBUM MISERY INDEX) · BARS 28-29
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 14, 19, 20, 27, 42 and 2 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 6 sections: 37 keep time, 8 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-50.

PART A
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKCHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Salt Mine (From the album Misery Index)?

150 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 Salt Mine (From the album Misery Index) hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 1:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mine (From the album Misery Index)?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 14, 19, 20, 27, 42 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 57 BARS ANALYSED
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