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Gloria · Patti Smith

EXERCISE 8 OF 70
Groove D
66 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART V
PART Y
PART AF
OUTRO
16 groovesNAOKEV+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gloria on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 7:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
7:22
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-129 and snare through bars 130-134, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-68, 70 and 72, and 2 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    56
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------|
Gloria -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 28, 35, 36, 53, 54 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- N, K -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-37 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gloria?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Gloria hard to play on drums?

63 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 7:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 28, 35, 36, 53, 54 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED