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Clint Eastwood · Gorillaz

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clint Eastwood on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-40, 42-48 and 58-66, and 2 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----X-----x-----X-----x-----x-----x-----X-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x--------g--|
FT |------------------x---x-----g-------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------------|
Clint Eastwood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 31, 41, 49, 67, 83 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Clint Eastwood?

85 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 Clint Eastwood hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 32 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Clint Eastwood?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 31, 41, 49, 67, 83 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED