The Glass Slide · Veil Of Maya

132 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 36 and 66-68, and 8 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE GLASS SLIDE · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 39 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 45 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

PART B
PART G
PART K
PART M
CHORUS
PART AF
OUTRO 2
11 groovesVKMBG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Glass Slide?

150 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 The Glass Slide hard to play on drums?

60 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Glass Slide?

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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