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Broken Glass Complexion · Vein

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove Q -- Part Q (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART S
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Glass Complexion on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-26, hi-hat through bars 27-28 and snare through bars 29-31, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33                       34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------x-----------|x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o-------o---o---|----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----x-x-x---x-x-|
BD |x-----------x-----------|x---------xx------x-----|
Broken Glass Complexion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- Q, L -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part Q and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part S and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-58 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-66 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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