Clayman · In Flames

148 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-32 and 41-47, and 3 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
CLAYMAN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 14, 35, 39 and 25 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 12 sections: 87 keep time, 31 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART A
PART O
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHOAJV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clayman?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Clayman hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Clayman?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 14, 35, 39 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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