Glory · Heaven Pierce Her

68 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:57 of playing, on ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-12, 17-32 and 37-44, and 1 more place -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
GLORY · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 65, 66, 67 and 68.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 65-68 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 9 sections: 47 keep time, 4 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART D
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBADS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glory?

140 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 Glory hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Glory?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 65, 66, 67 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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