Gräslig · Stålverk 80

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-51, 53-61 and 89-97 -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
GRÄSLIG · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 28, 32, 41 and 7 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 87-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 76 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-61.

PART D
PART F
PART D
CHORUS
PART N
PART O
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLFDS9N+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gräslig?

105 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 Gräslig hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Gräslig?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 28, 32, 41 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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