Glitter and Gold · Barns Courtney

58 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:42 of playing, on hi-hat, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
6/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-40, 45-47 and 53-58 -- 83.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
GLITTER AND GOLD · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 4 sections: 52 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glitter and Gold?

85 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 Glitter and Gold hard to play on drums?

6 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, floor tom 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
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