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Those In Glass Houses · Of Mice And Men

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART J
PART Q
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCABJQT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Those In Glass Houses on drums

105 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-10, toms through bars 11-14, snare through bars 15-83, kick and crashes through bars 84-87 and toms through bars 88-89, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 52-58 and 98-104 -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Those In Glass Houses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 18, 26, 32, 34 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-19 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-55 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Those In Glass Houses?

175 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 Those In Glass Houses 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Those In Glass Houses?

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 18, 26, 32, 34 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED