For The Glory Of The Swarm · Insect Inside

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56, 58 and 60, and 2 more places -- 6.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FOR THE GLORY OF THE SWARM · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 27 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 5-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 6 sections: 31 keep time, 33 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-15.

PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPAQATAMB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For The Glory Of The Swarm?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 For The Glory Of The Swarm hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 For The Glory Of The Swarm?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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