STILL WATER SALVATION · Psycho-Frame

105 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 9 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
STILL WATER SALVATION · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 37 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 13 sections: 50 keep time, 43 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART AM
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesJNBAMAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is STILL WATER SALVATION?

127 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 STILL WATER SALVATION hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

105 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 STILL WATER SALVATION?

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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