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glass beach · Glass Beach

EXERCISE 21 OF 86
Join Chorus to Part O (bars 47-49)
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0 / 86 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART O
PART P
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
21 groovesMBPVG+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 20
LINK · 6
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play glass beach on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-20, hi-hat through bars 21-43, snare through bars 44-63, hi-hat through bars 64-66 and snare through bars 67-68, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--x--x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x--x--x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |--x--x---x--x---|-x--x----x--x---|
glass beach -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- B, M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-60 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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