Salvation · Chimaira

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 52-54 and 56-57, and 2 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SALVATION · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 9, 55, 58, 59, 62 and 21 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 62-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 17 sections: 52 keep time, 27 are fills, 20 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-120.

PART E
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART AD
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesSHADAPL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Salvation?

90 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 Salvation hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Salvation?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 9, 55, 58, 59, 62 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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