ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clash With Reality on drums

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.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

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

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, toms through bars 25-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-49, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37                               38
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x-----------------------x---x---|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x---x---|
BD |X-----X-------x-------x-------x-|X-x-x-X-------x---x-------------|

Clash With Reality -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- R, Z -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Bars 1-16 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Bars 1-13 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part S3 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part S3 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 2 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
and 11 more sittings after that.

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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