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black glass · machine girl

black glass · machine girl
EXERCISE 6 OF 28
Groove D
54 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPBHIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play black glass on drums

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

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-77 and snare through bars 78-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 61-75 and 93 -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61           62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
black glass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- P, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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