Broken Glass Complexion · Vein

85 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 50 and 54 -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BROKEN GLASS COMPLEXION · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 24 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 1-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 7 sections: 27 keep time, 30 are fills, 6 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-39.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART S
PART Q
PART AC
BREAK
6 groovesLS7QSAC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Glass Complexion?

190 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 Broken Glass Complexion hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Broken Glass Complexion?

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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