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A New Type of Grey · Calling All Captains

A New Type of Grey · Calling All Captains
EXERCISE 27 OF 52
Join Part Q to Part J (bars 53-55)
71 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART J
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A New Type of Grey on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-35, snare through bars 36-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, snare through bars 43-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-93, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x---x---x-----x---x---|
A New Type of Grey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-43 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-55 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-71 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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