Eternal Glory · Rhapsody

236 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-53, 85-91 and 123-129, and 5 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ETERNAL GLORY · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 31, 32, 54, 71, 80, 84 and 14 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

236 bars across 18 sections: 116 keep time, 20 are fills, 61 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-30.

PART S2
PART D
PART J
PART M
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGMDJS13+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eternal Glory?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Eternal Glory hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Eternal Glory?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 31, 32, 54, 71, 80, 84 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED
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