glug · patrick albuquerque

166 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44-49, 52-57 and 135-140, and 1 more place -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
GLUG · BARS 44-45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 28 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 13 sections: 110 keep time, 34 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-133.

PART G
PART U
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AG
PART U
PART L
PART AR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesZLUATAG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is glug?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is glug hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 27 sittings, about 24 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 glug?

20 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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