Touch of Grey · Grateful Dead

238 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 6:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
6:06
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 10-12 and 14-20, and 43 more places -- 77.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 156 BPM
TOUCH OF GREY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 40, 45, 72, 77, 93 and 9 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 2 sections: 221 keep time, 15 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-140.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Touch of Grey?

156 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 Touch of Grey hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 6:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Touch of Grey?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 40, 45, 72, 77, 93 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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