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Into the Painted Grey · Agalloch

EXERCISE 9 OF 49
Fill at bar 62
29 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART P
PART B
CHORUS
PART P
PART R
BREAK
10 groovesS11S2HPB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Into the Painted Grey on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
10:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-11, silence through bars 12-26, toms through bars 27-31, hi-hat through bars 32-36 and ride through bars 37-41, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x---x-x---------x-|
Into the Painted Grey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- H -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-63 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-32 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-74 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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