Glittering Prize · Simple Minds

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 24 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 93 BPM
GLITTERING PRIZE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 33, 34, 35 and 4 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 81 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-99.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART A
OUTRO
6 groovesDALFI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glittering Prize?

93 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 Glittering Prize hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Glittering Prize?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 33, 34, 35 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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