glass beach · Glass Beach

241 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressivePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-18, 21-27 and 226-235 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
GLASS BEACH · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 19, 46, 48, 54, 56, 57 and 36 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

241 bars across 31 sections: 131 keep time, 42 are fills, 7 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-42.

PART B
PART G
PART P
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
21 groovesMBPVG+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is glass beach?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is glass beach hard to play on drums?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in glass beach?

11 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 19, 46, 48, 54, 56, 57 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED
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