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Glass Heart · Caskets

Glass Heart · Caskets
EXERCISE 26 OF 47
Join Part O to Part T (bars 61-63)
90 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART T
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glass Heart on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-61, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- D, G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-88 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Z -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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