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Claypoo · Ben Schröder

Claypoo · Ben Schröder
EXERCISE 16 OF 30
Join Part O to Chorus (bars 24-26)
40 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, CHORUS
PART B
PART O
CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesQBS6OSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Claypoo on drums

60 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, toms through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-24, toms through bars 25-37 and snare through bars 38-41, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 34-36 and 42-44, and 1 more place -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-x---f---x-|
SD |x-----------x--x|
T2 |------x---------|
FT |----x-----------|
BD |x---------x---xx|
Claypoo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- Q, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-26 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 26-42 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Claypoo?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Claypoo hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Claypoo?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED