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Girl's Not Grey · AFI

EXERCISE 22 OF 42
Groove I -- Part I
77 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Girl's Not Grey on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, ride through bars 23-29, toms through bars 30-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
RD |--x-x---x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|
Girl's Not Grey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-92 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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