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Eternal Glory · Rhapsody

EXERCISE 37 OF 47
Run T1 · Part T (bars 180-188)
176 / 236 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
PART S2
PART D
PART J
PART M
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
PART T
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGMDJS13+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eternal Glory on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
69/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-15, snare through bars 16-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-46, hi-hat through bars 47-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-92, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    47
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Eternal Glory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-72 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-123 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part S14 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 180-214 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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