Against the Grain · Green River

11 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 10-11 -- 72.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
AGAINST THE GRAIN · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars: 10 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Against the Grain?

128 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 Against the Grain hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

11 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 11 BARS ANALYSED
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