Touch Of Grey · Grateful Dead

193 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-21, 23-37 and 39-41, and 4 more places -- 94.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 156 BPM
TOUCH OF GREY · BAR 12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 42, 54, 154 and 166.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 3 sections: 181 keep time, 6 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-153.

VERSE
3 groovesCS1BFill 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?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 42, 54, 154 and 166.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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