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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

160 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

290

LENGTH

5:26

DIFFICULTY

64/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-24, toms through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-77, toms through bars 78-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-82, and 6 more changes after that.

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |------o-----|
SD |------x-----|
FT |x-xxx---xxx-|
BD |x-xxx-x-xxx-|
HF |x-xxx---xxx-|

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

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- H, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
3. Bars 5-33 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
6. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 86-140 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.