Glamorous Sky · Mika Nakashima

158 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-24 and 29, and 14 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
GLAMOROUS SKY · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 10, 25, 26 and 8 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 13 sections: 119 keep time, 14 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-154.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFJCMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glamorous Sky?

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

Is Glamorous Sky hard to play on drums?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Glamorous Sky?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 10, 25, 26 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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