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Into The Gray · Thousand Below

Into The Gray · Thousand Below
EXERCISE 15 OF 16
Run S51 · Outro (bars 92-116)
71 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesS4CS5FS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Into The Gray on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-40, snare through bars 41-54, silence through bars 55-96 and snare through bars 97-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 25 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    92
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Into The Gray -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 99, 107 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-101 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-108 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Into The Gray?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Into The Gray hard to play on drums?

41 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?

116 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Into The Gray?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 99, 107 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED