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Clock Strikes · One Ok Rock

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove J -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clock Strikes on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-21, ride through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-37 and ride through bars 38-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x-x--xx-x-x--|
Clock Strikes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-48 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-64 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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