Clocks · Coldplay

153 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 41-48 and 81-112, and 1 more place -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
CLOCKS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 140 and 152.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 140 · LANDS ON BAR 141 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 9 sections: 128 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-80.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCDS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clocks?

131 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 Clocks hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Clocks?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 140 and 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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