Beloved · Glay

126 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10 and 40-42, and 11 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BELOVED · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 29, 38, 46, 50 and 20 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 11 sections: 83 keep time, 26 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-28.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCGRK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beloved?

120 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 Beloved hard to play on drums?

51 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Beloved?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 29, 38, 46, 50 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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