ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play glug on drums

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.

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 192 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 166
LENGTH: 3:28
DIFFICULTY: 98/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-32, ride through bars 33-49, hi-hat through bars 50-67 and ride through bars 68-83, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    44                                               45
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------------------------------------------------|------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|------------------------------------------------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|

glug -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through Part G and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 1-24 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
and 19 more sittings after that.

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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