Into the Painted Grey · Agalloch

184 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 10:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
10:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 42 and 44, and 1 more place -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
INTO THE PAINTED GREY · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 10 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 11 sections: 46 keep time, 16 are fills and 109 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-61.

PART B
CHORUS
PART P
PART R
BREAK
10 groovesS11S2HPB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Into the Painted Grey?

140 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Into the Painted Grey hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 10:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Painted Grey?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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