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Glasgow Kiss · John Petrucci

EXERCISE 4 OF 29
Groove R -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
54 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesIS7FRMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glasgow Kiss on drums

145 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 207 BPM, 3:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-103 and silence through bars 104-145.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 23-38 and 47-53, and 2 more places -- 50.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
RD |----x---x-------x-------x-----------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------x-------x---x---------------|
Glasgow Kiss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 8, 14, 46, 84, 85 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-82 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 83-104 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Glasgow Kiss?

207 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Glasgow Kiss hard to play on drums?

63 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Glasgow Kiss?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 8, 14, 46, 84, 85 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED