The Gridiron · Brodequin

106 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-33, 58-60 and 62-64, and 2 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE GRIDIRON · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 43, 45, 55, 73, 85, 99 and 7 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 99-106 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 80 keep time, 13 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-33.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECMAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Gridiron?

150 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 Gridiron hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Gridiron?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 43, 45, 55, 73, 85, 99 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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