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On Broken Glass · Malevolence

On Broken Glass · Malevolence
EXERCISE 25 OF 79
Join Part N to Chorus (bars 49-51)
105 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, CHORUS
PART B
PART F
PART N
CHORUS
PART AI
CHORUS 3
PART BA
OUTRO
11 groovesRAIBBAAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On Broken Glass on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-44, snare through bars 45-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-56, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
On Broken Glass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- R, AK -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-51 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-59 -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 57-63 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED