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Through Glass · Stone Sour

EXERCISE 21 OF 50
Run H1 · Part H (bars 19-23)
41 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART L
PART Q
PART S6
PART T
PART V
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDQACVS6+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Through Glass on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-29, snare through bars 30-38, silence through bars 39-45, toms through bars 46-52 and snare through bars 53-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 58-59, and 2 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------g-----g--------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x--------x--------|
Through Glass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 22, 23, 25 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- Q -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-24 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-30 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 28-47 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Through Glass?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Through Glass hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Through Glass?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 22, 23, 25 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED