The Salmon Of Knowledge · Alternative Competition 7

290 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 5:26 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
290
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 140-142, and 8 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THE SALMON OF KNOWLEDGE · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 32, 40, 155, 187, 211, 215 and 10 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 155 · LANDS ON BAR 156 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 211 · LANDS ON BAR 212
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 215 · LANDS ON BAR 216 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

290 bars across 16 sections: 241 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-128.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
10 groovesHKABF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Salmon Of Knowledge?

160 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Salmon Of Knowledge hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

290 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Salmon Of Knowledge?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 32, 40, 155, 187, 211, 215 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 290 BARS ANALYSED
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