A New Type of Grey · Calling All Captains

103 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 91 BPM, 3:23 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 43-45, and 9 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
A NEW TYPE OF GREY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 14, 33, 34, 38, 42 and 15 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 12 sections: 58 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART Q
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCJGAEQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A New Type of Grey?

91 BPM, in 3/4, 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 A New Type of Grey hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 A New Type of Grey?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 14, 33, 34, 38, 42 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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