Gloria · The Doors

99 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-67 and 89-97 -- 74.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
GLORIA · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 98 and 99.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 98-99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 4 sections: 89 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-67.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gloria?

130 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 Gloria hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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 Gloria?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 98 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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