grayout · Thrown

63 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 59, and 1 more place -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
GRAYOUT · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 14 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 7 sections: 22 keep time, 20 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-23.

PART F
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART R
OUTRO
7 groovesPFS7RH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is grayout?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is grayout hard to play on drums?

51 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 grayout?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 14 more.

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