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Glittering Prize · Simple Minds

EXERCISE 19 OF 36
Run A2 · Part A (bars 31-35)
100 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART A
OUTRO
6 groovesDALFI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glittering Prize on drums

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

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Glittering Prize -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-37 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-40 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 56-64 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-100 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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