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Touch of Grey · Grateful Dead

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Touch of Grey on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
6:06
DIFFICULTY
52/100

ride through bars 3-238.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Touch of Grey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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