Glendale Train · New Riders Of The Purple Sage

94 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20 and 26-90 -- 87.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 129 BPM
GLENDALE TRAIN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 5 sections: 88 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-90.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
4 groovesDECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glendale Train?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Glendale Train hard to play on drums?

46 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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