Grey Street · Dave Mathews Band

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 14 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 101 BPM
GREY STREET · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 40 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 3-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 9 sections: 69 keep time and 46 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-24.

PART B
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNJAZBK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grey Street?

101 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 Street hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Grey Street?

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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