Salted mildew · Zorgebontron

47 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
1:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-24 and 35-49 -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SALTED MILDEW · BARS 17-18
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 11 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 25-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 3 sections: 31 keep time and 17 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-49.

PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Salted mildew?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Salted mildew hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 1:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Salted mildew?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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