Glowstick Ninja · Alternative Competition 7

157 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 29-60 and 126-128, and 1 more place -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
GLOWSTICK NINJA · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 9 sections: 140 keep time, 1 is a fill, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-124.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesBGDFC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glowstick Ninja?

108 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 Glowstick Ninja hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Glowstick Ninja?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

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