Gleam in Ranks · Maudlin Of The Well

185 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-14, 20-23 and 29, and 16 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
GLEAM IN RANKS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 105, 117, 120, 121, 123, 125 and 6 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 120-121 · LANDS ON BAR 122 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 11 sections: 148 keep time, 12 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-87.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
9 groovesGVOQK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gleam in Ranks?

175 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 Gleam in Ranks hard to play on drums?

59 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Gleam in Ranks?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 105, 117, 120, 121, 123, 125 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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