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Salvation · Chimaira

EXERCISE 11 OF 73
Fill at bar 105 (a small one)
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Salvation on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, snare through bars 31-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-51, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Salvation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- N, H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-110 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-64 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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