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EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove E -- Chorus 2
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PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AF
OUTRO
9 groovesEJAFBS9+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Within Stained Glass on drums

105 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 2-14, hi-hat through bars 15-27, snare through bars 28-33, hi-hat through bars 34-36, snare through bars 37-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-59, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 23 and 25, and 12 more places -- 16% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|
Within Stained Glass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 11, 12, 14, 18, 20 and 22 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA (a two-bar phrase), C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Within Stained Glass?

180 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 Within Stained Glass hard to play on drums?

52 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Within Stained Glass?

17 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 11, 12, 14, 18, 20 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED