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New Grass · Talk Talk

EXERCISE 3 OF 15
Groove B
79 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Grass on drums

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

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
1:26
DIFFICULTY
85/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |--x-xx--x-xx|
SD |x--g--x-----|
BD |----xx--xx-x|
New Grass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-26 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED