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The Grey · Bad Omens

EXERCISE 3 OF 50
Groove L -- Part L
59 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Grey on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-25, silence through bars 26-59, snare through bars 60-85, hi-hat through bars 86-116 and snare through bars 117-190.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-----x-------|
BD |----x-x---x---x-|
The Grey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 12-25 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 81-101 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 102-118 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 2 and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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