On Broken Glass · Malevolence

233 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-56, 63-64 and 115-120, and 3 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
ON BROKEN GLASS · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 16, 48, 49, 50, 57 and 34 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 48-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

233 bars across 16 sections: 101 keep time, 41 are fills, 66 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-37.

PART B
PART F
PART AI
CHORUS 3
PART BA
OUTRO
11 groovesRAIBBAAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On Broken Glass?

215 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 On Broken Glass hard to play on drums?

52 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 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 On Broken Glass?

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 16, 48, 49, 50, 57 and 34 more.

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