black glass · machine girl

93 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 1:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 92.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 6 sections: 81 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-91.

PART B
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPBHIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is black glass?

174 BPM, in 4/4, 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 black glass hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 black glass?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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