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.

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

TEMPO

113 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

116

LENGTH

4:08

DIFFICULTY

70/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-33, hi-hat through bars 34-36 and snare through bars 37-38, and 10 more changes after that.

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.

    27                                                               28
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
RD |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------x---------------|
HH |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------o---x---o---|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------x-----------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---x---|x---------------x-------x---x-----------x---x---x---x---x---x---|

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

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- T, BA -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
3. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through the Break and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. Through Part D and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 12 more sittings after that.