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Grey Street · Dave Mathews Band

Grey Street · Dave Mathews Band
EXERCISE 14 OF 65
7-bar fill at bar 3
50 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grey Street on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-31, hi-hat through bars 32-51, ride through bars 52-61, hi-hat through bars 62-81 and ride through bars 82-99, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x------|
Grey Street -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- J, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 11-26 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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