Gloria · Van Morrison

84 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-25, 27 and 29, and 5 more places -- 89.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
GLORIA · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars: 83 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-83.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill 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?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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