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Clayman · In Flames

EXERCISE 16 OF 61
Groove I
92 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clayman on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
77/100

ride through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-32, ride through bars 33-38 and snare through bars 39-40, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-xxx-|
Clayman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-15 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-142 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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