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Grey Garden · Windhand

Grey Garden · Windhand
EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 86 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S8
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART D
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDKS8S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grey Garden on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-35, hi-hat through bars 36-40, ride through bars 41-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-48, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Grey Garden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 63-106 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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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