gray world · coconat

123 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-49 and 126-128 -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
GRAY WORLD · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 27.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 14 sections: 64 keep time, 2 are fills, 6 are stops and 56 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-57.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART S8
BREAK 3
BREAK 4
13 groovesSS12S9HA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is gray world?

110 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 gray world hard to play on drums?

64 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in gray world?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 27.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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