Glass Houses · Bad Omens

109 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39, 41-43 and 57-59, and 7 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
GLASS HOUSES · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 35, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 5 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 12 sections: 68 keep time, 11 are fills, 5 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-81.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
PART O
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART A
OUTRO
9 groovesTHADOS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glass Houses?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Houses hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Houses?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 35, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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