Clarity · Northlane

136 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 29-31 and 33-39, and 3 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
CLARITY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 26, 28, 32 and 14 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 14 sections: 67 keep time, 20 are fills, 25 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S4
PART H
PART R
PART T
BREAK 5
OUTRO
10 groovesAHS13TS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clarity?

127 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 Clarity hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Clarity?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 26, 28, 32 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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