Deal · Grateful Dead

162 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-15, 26-30 and 36-51, and 5 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DEAL · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 52, 56, 70, 133, 134, 135 and 2 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 133-137 · LANDS ON BAR 138 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 15 sections: 137 keep time, 8 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-103.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
7 groovesBFDCG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deal?

140 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 Deal hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Deal?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 52, 56, 70, 133, 134, 135 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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