Clarity · Protest The Protagonist

177 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 6 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
CLARITY · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 57, 73, 105, 153, 154 and 1 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 153-154 · LANDS ON BAR 155 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 172 · LANDS ON BAR 173
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 15 sections: 133 keep time, 7 are fills, 10 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-44.

PART G
PART J
PART N
CHORUS
PART B
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART AI
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesQAYZBAP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clarity?

135 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 Clarity hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 28 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 57, 73, 105, 153, 154 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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