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Glamorous Sky · Hyde

EXERCISE 3 OF 73
Groove G -- Part G
40 / 160 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART Z
PART AH
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
14 groovesMFKAJZ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glamorous Sky on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-29, snare through bars 30-40, hi-hat through bars 41-61, snare through bars 62-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-85, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 65 and 69-75, and 4 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---xx|
Glamorous Sky -- 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 19, 27, 28, 29, 30, 56 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- M, K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-24 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-68 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-83 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Glamorous Sky?

148 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 Glamorous Sky hard to play on drums?

52 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Glamorous Sky?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 19, 27, 28, 29, 30, 56 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED