Clock Strikes · One Ok Rock

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 9 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 96 BPM
CLOCK STRIKES · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 27, 39, 41 and 12 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 12 sections: 41 keep time, 18 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-38.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART R
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJOWDR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clock Strikes?

96 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 Clock Strikes hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Clock Strikes?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 27, 39, 41 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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