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Glass Houses · Bad Omens

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove T -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glass Houses on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, snare through bars 16-22, hi-hat through bars 23-25, snare through bars 26-28 and ride through bars 29-37, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41                               42
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x-----------x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-----x---x---x-x-|x-----x-----x-------x---x-x-----|
Glass Houses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-42 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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