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Word Salad · Annihilator

EXERCISE 10 OF 62
Run E1 · Part E (bars 10-18)
79 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S
BREAK 3
PART Z
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
12 groovesKARSHZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Word Salad on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-23, ride through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-31, ride through bars 32-57 and silence through bars 58-65, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 32-35 and 40, and 16 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Word Salad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 41, 44, 46, 52, 73, 74 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-126 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Word Salad?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Word Salad hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 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 Word Salad?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 41, 44, 46, 52, 73, 74 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED