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Glenwood · Lorna Shore

EXERCISE 16 OF 55
16-bar fill at bar 20
52 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART AF
PART S8
CHORUS 2
PART A
BREAK 2
OUTRO
14 groovesDS12AFS17A+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glenwood on drums

167 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-20, hi-hat through bars 21-25, toms through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-37 and silence through bars 38-52, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 11 and 15-16, and 6 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                                8
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------x-------------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------x---x---x-------|------------xxxx--------x-------|
Glenwood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 20, 21, 22 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 11 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-57 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 35-50 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part S6 and Part AF -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-71 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Glenwood?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Glenwood hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Glenwood?

12 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 20, 21, 22 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED