Grey Garden · Windhand

197 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-30, 36-38 and 46-47, and 9 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
GREY GARDEN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 32, 39, 48, 63, 64 and 15 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 14 sections: 83 keep time, 21 are fills, 62 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-126.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART S8
PART K
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDKS8S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grey Garden?

135 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 Grey Garden hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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 Grey Garden?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 32, 39, 48, 63, 64 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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