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The Glowing Man · Swans

EXERCISE 32 OF 38
Groove O
701 / 915 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 54 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
BREAK
PART S4
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNS4KEB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Glowing Man on drums

915 bars, 47:49, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
915
LENGTH
47:49
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-83, silence through bars 84-142, snare through bars 143-349, silence through bars 350-373 and kick and crashes through bars 374-449, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 549-552, 555-557 and 561, and 62 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    549
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
The Glowing Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 386, 395, 396, 397, 400, 401 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- N, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 400-449 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Glowing Man?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Glowing Man hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

915 bars, about 47:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Glowing Man?

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 386, 395, 396, 397, 400, 401 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 915 BARS ANALYSED