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Clash On The Big Bridge · The Black Mages

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBQKS1F+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clash On The Big Bridge on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-43, snare through bars 44-45, hi-hat through bars 46-67, snare through bars 68-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-115, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 83-118 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 12 minutes.
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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