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Salt Thrower (AI) · Slugdge

EXERCISE 1 OF 111
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Salt Thrower (AI) on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
318
LENGTH
11:25
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, snare through bars 37-48, hi-hat through bars 49-66, snare through bars 67-86 and silence through bars 87-110, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13                                               14
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|x-----------------x-----------x-----------x-----|
Salt Thrower (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 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 -- B, BY -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-80 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-116 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part S8 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part V -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part V -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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