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Clay · Eye Of The Enemy

Clay · Eye Of The Enemy
EXERCISE 7 OF 61
Groove G -- Part G
76 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S
PART G
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 5
7 groovesBSGAGQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clay on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24 and snare through bars 25-26, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Clay -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 19-47 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-79 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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