Life in a Glasshouse · Radiohead

52 bars, 4:11, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and floor tom and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-19 -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 55 BPM
LIFE IN A GLASSHOUSE · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
PART D
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK 3
7 groovesBJIDS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Life in a Glasshouse?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Life in a Glasshouse hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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