New Grass · Talk Talk

94 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 1:26 of playing on ride, snare and kick.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
1:26
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 13 and 16-17, and 10 more places -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
NEW GRASS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 94.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 94
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 20 sections: 73 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Grass?

200 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is New Grass hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 1:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in New Grass?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 94.

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