Clocks · Oceans Ate Alaska

116 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-31, 33 and 37, and 3 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
CLOCKS · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 7, 14, 18, 21, 26 and 7 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 15 sections: 75 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-87.

PART D
PART P
CHORUS
PART N
PART AD
PART S11
PART AP
PART AU
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesTADAPBAN+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clocks?

113 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 Clocks hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Clocks?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 7, 14, 18, 21, 26 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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