Glorious Years · Beyond

74 bars, 4:00, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 22, and 16 more places -- 52.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
GLORIOUS YEARS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 21, 32 and 6 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 5 sections: 57 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-58.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glorious Years?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Glorious Years hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Glorious Years?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 21, 32 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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