Another State Of Grace · Black Star Riders

116 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-40, 42 and 44-50, and 6 more places -- 36.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
ANOTHER STATE OF GRACE · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21 and 7 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 15 sections: 77 keep time, 13 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-98.

PART H
PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART X
10 groovesQVDTL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another State Of Grace?

128 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Another State Of Grace hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Another State Of Grace?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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