Clay · Eye Of The Enemy

170 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 5:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-18 and 29-32, and 14 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CLAY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 and 57 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 25-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 17 sections: 77 keep time, 63 are fills, 4 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S
PART S
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
7 groovesBSGAGQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clay?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Clay hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Clay?

16 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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