Like Eating Glass.. · Bloc Party

97 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-22 and 26-28, and 3 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
LIKE EATING GLASS.. · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 25, 41, 51 and 20 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 26 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEKTS1R+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Like Eating Glass..?

160 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 Like Eating Glass.. hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Like Eating Glass..?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 25, 41, 51 and 20 more.

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