Paths of Glory · Servetus

112 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 176 BPM, 3:21 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 4% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-23 and 26-27 -- 4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
PATHS OF GLORY · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 58 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 5 sections: 31 keep time, 64 are fills and 68 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-25.

CHORUS
PART T
PART S3
BREAK
5 groovesAS5TS3OFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paths of Glory?

176 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Paths of Glory hard to play on drums?

56 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Paths of Glory?

3 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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