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.

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 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-----|

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

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.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.