Clash On The Big Bridge · The Black Mages

177 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 20-27 and 33, and 13 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CLASH ON THE BIG BRIDGE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 19, 29, 37, 41, 45, 53 and 18 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 12 sections: 99 keep time, 24 are fills, 33 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-52.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBQKS1F+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clash On The Big Bridge?

130 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 Clash On The Big Bridge hard to play on drums?

46 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Clash On The Big Bridge?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 19, 29, 37, 41, 45, 53 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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