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Paths of Glory · Servetus

Paths of Glory · Servetus
EXERCISE 7 OF 21
2-bar fill at bar 57
37 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART T
PART S3
BREAK
5 groovesAS5TS3OFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paths of Glory on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-95 and silence through bars 96-112.

The beat

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.

    22                       23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-----------x-----------|x-----------o-------x---|
FT |x---x---------------x---|------------x-------x---|
BD |x---x-------------------|x-------------------x---|
Paths of Glory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part T -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 3 exercises, about 44 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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