The Greys · Devin Townsend

167 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 18 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
THE GREYS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 23, 27, 29 and 25 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 20 sections: 94 keep time, 31 are fills, 14 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 156-167.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 4
PART U
PART AB
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDABAYAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Greys?

152 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Greys 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Greys?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 23, 27, 29 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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