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The Grey Man · Death Impending

The Grey Man · Death Impending
EXERCISE 1 OF 89
Groove G -- Part G
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0 / 89 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Grey Man on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
92/100

hi-hat through bars 1-39, ride through bars 40-49, hi-hat through bars 50-61, snare through bars 62-69, hi-hat through bars 70-71 and snare through bars 72-89, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------------------x---x---|
The Grey Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- G, N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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