Grinder · Judas Priest

127 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 17 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 141 BPM
GRINDER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 56, 72, 74, 76, 79 and 9 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 4 sections: 105 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-122.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grinder?

141 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 Grinder hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Grinder?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 56, 72, 74, 76, 79 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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