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Glamorous Sky · Mika Nakashima

Glamorous Sky · Mika Nakashima
EXERCISE 29 OF 37
Join Chorus 3 to Part C (bars 98-100)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFJCMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glamorous Sky on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, toms through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-66, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Glamorous Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-97 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-158 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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