Gloire Éternelle · First Fragment

230 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 161-167, 169-175 and 178, and 3 more places -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
GLOIRE ÉTERNELLE · BARS 161-162
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 51, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58 and 42 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 51-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 57-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 93-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 18 sections: 145 keep time, 48 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-81.

PART K
PART AB
CHORUS
PART BJ
PART BO
PART CU
PART CX
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAGDEBJBOCU+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gloire Éternelle?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Gloire Éternelle hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 30 sittings, about 26 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 Gloire Éternelle?

9 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 51, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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