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Glass Garden · Dally Raised the Gun

Glass Garden · Dally Raised the Gun
EXERCISE 26 OF 41
2-bar fill at bar 34
80 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHATDPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glass Garden on drums

95 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-26, toms through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-44, hi-hat through bars 45-79 and ride through bars 80-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 5 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A, T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-48 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Glass Garden?

170 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 Glass Garden hard to play on drums?

54 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Glass Garden?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED