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Glitch · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART L
PART M
OUTRO
9 groovesBDLMF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glitch on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-48, ride through bars 49-52 and snare through bars 53-61, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 29-30, and 7 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Glitch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 16, 40 and 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-41 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-61 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-86 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Glitch?

106 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 Glitch hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Glitch?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 16, 40 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED