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Clenching The Fists Of Dissent · Machine Head

EXERCISE 1 OF 110
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 304 BARS COVERED
0 / 110 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AD
PART AR
PART S24
CHORUS 5
PART AZ
32 groovesHCADBDBB+27Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 25
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 5
JOIN · 29
LINK · 3
SECTION · 21
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clenching The Fists Of Dissent on drums

304 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 10:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
304
LENGTH
10:22
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-29, silence through bars 30-37, snare through bars 38-45, hi-hat through bars 46-52 and toms through bars 53-57, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-43 and 46-48, and 7 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---g---x---g---x---g---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Clenching The Fists Of Dissent -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 34, 36, 41, 44, 52, 57 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 96 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 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB, AZ -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-58 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 22 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Clenching The Fists Of Dissent?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Clenching The Fists Of Dissent hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

304 bars, about 10:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 30 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 Clenching The Fists Of Dissent?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 34, 36, 41, 44, 52, 57 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 304 BARS ANALYSED