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Raining Glass · Psycho-Frame

EXERCISE 9 OF 55
Groove O -- Part O
46 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
CHORUS
PART I
PART O
PART W
PART AA
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJAAAHOW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Raining Glass on drums

102 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50 and ride through bars 51-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 18 and 24, and 5 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |x---------------|
BD |----x-x-x-x-----|
Raining Glass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH, I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-39 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-44 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part W and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Raining Glass?

210 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 Raining Glass hard to play on drums?

58 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 1:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Raining Glass?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED