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Beloved · Glay

Beloved · Glay
EXERCISE 12 OF 52
Groove J
74 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART K, PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCGRK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beloved on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-38, ride through bars 39-54, hi-hat through bars 55-57 and ride through bars 58-73, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Beloved -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-117 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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