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Clarity · Northlane

EXERCISE 18 OF 40
Fill at bar 40 and 48 (a small one)
70 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clarity on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-28, hi-hat through bars 29-57, silence through bars 58-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-66 and silence through bars 67-68, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-33 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-91 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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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