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Gloria · Mineral

Gloria · Mineral
EXERCISE 26 OF 47
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
103 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART N
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART N
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJINEB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gloria on drums

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.

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
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, snare through bars 16-25, hi-hat through bars 26-63, snare through bars 64-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-111, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-----g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |------x---------|----------------|
BD |x---------------|--------------x-|
HF |----x-----------|----------------|
Gloria -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-64 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-55 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-62 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-132 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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