Stained Glass Cross · Down

99 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 40-46 and 48-54, and 1 more place -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
STAINED GLASS CROSS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 39, 47, 59, 82 and 98.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 6 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-97.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHDBLS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stained Glass Cross?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Stained Glass Cross hard to play on drums?

54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Stained Glass Cross?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 39, 47, 59, 82 and 98.

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