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Clocks · Coldplay

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clocks on drums

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

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-80 and ride through bars 81-113, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-----x-----x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|
Clocks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 49-137 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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