Glass Heart · Caskets

139 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10-11 and 43, and 8 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
GLASS HEART · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 52, 58, 62, 103, 107 and 2 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 17 sections: 86 keep time, 8 are fills, 16 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-28.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART S11
PART Z
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesDGAJZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glass Heart?

163 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 Heart hard to play on drums?

55 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?

139 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Heart?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 52, 58, 62, 103, 107 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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