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The Glass Slide · Veil Of Maya

EXERCISE 14 OF 66
Fill at bar 12
71 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Glass Slide on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-98, silence through bars 99-100 and kick and crashes through bars 101-104, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-xxxxxx|
The Glass Slide -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- M, K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-24 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-62 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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