Clash With Reality · Pantera

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 37-39 and 41-43, and 4 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
CLASH WITH REALITY · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 41 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 12-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 16 sections: 64 keep time, 47 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-32.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART AC
PART Z
PART AC
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesCRACZS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clash With Reality?

85 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 Clash With Reality hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Clash With Reality?

15 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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