Mirror Image/Broken Glass · solastyear

120 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 7 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 182 BPM
MIRROR IMAGE/BROKEN GLASS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 32, 50 and 10 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 16 are fills, 9 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-101.

CHORUS
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AB
PART AE
OUTRO
BREAK 2
10 groovesFAHSKAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mirror Image/Broken Glass?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mirror Image/Broken Glass hard to play on drums?

64 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Mirror Image/Broken Glass?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 32, 50 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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