The Grey · Bad Omens

190 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-19, and 23 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
THE GREY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 64, 68 and 20 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 14 sections: 133 keep time, 26 are fills, 5 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-61.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
PART C
OUTRO
8 groovesACLS3O+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Grey?

190 BPM, in 4/4, 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 The Grey hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Grey?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 64, 68 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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