The Grey Man · Death Impending

190 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 5 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 183 BPM
THE GREY MAN · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 33 and 61 more.

LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 16 sections: 108 keep time, 67 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-28.

PART A
PART G
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART X
PART A
PART G
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
11 groovesNGAIL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Grey Man?

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

Is The Grey Man hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 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 The Grey Man?

22 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 33 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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