Where the green grass grows · Tim McGraw

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 37, and 8 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WHERE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 6, 35, 36, 40, 42 and 8 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 7 sections: 38 keep time, 14 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-21.

CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFHMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where the green grass grows?

80 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 Where the green grass grows hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Where the green grass grows?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 6, 35, 36, 40, 42 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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