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Glory · Heaven Pierce Her

EXERCISE 14 OF 15
4-bar fill at bar 65
68 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glory on drums

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

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bars 1-48, silence through bars 49-56 and ride through bars 57-68.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g-g----x-|---g-gx----g-gx-|
BD |x-x-------x-----|x-------x-------|
Glory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes. Open above.
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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