Glum · Hayley Williams

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 37-45 and 57-65 -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
GLUM · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 14 and 36.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 6 sections: 46 keep time, 2 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-35.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDAS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glum?

85 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 Glum hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Glum?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 14 and 36.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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