Girl's Not Grey · AFI

96 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 23-29, and 3 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
GIRL'S NOT GREY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 22, 30 and 13 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 9 sections: 69 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-79.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBELMIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Girl's Not Grey?

122 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 Girl's Not Grey hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Girl's Not Grey?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 22, 30 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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