Salt Thrower (AI) · Slugdge

318 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 11:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
318
LENGTH
11:25
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-17, 19-23 and 25-29, and 10 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SALT THROWER (AI) · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 36, 54, 66, 115, 117, 118 and 31 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

318 bars across 21 sections: 187 keep time, 37 are fills, 38 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 205-228.

CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
PART V
PART AT
PART AW
PART BN
PART BY
PART CG
OUTRO 2
18 groovesBBYFBNS7+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Salt Thrower (AI)?

105 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 Thrower (AI) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

318 bars, about 11:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 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 Thrower (AI)?

22 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 36, 54, 66, 115, 117, 118 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 318 BARS ANALYSED
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