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Grey Day · Madness

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove C -- Part C
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PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grey Day on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-9 and 11, and 9 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------r-------------r-----r---|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Grey Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 25, 34, 35, 45 and 63.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-26 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-36 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Grey Day?

83 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 Grey Day hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Grey Day?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 25, 34, 35, 45 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED