Gloria · Mineral

147 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-40 and 74-88 -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
GLORIA · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 5, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 34 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 17 sections: 71 keep time, 40 are fills, 13 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-40.

PART E
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJINEB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gloria?

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

Is Gloria 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Gloria?

9 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 5, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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