Clockwork Angels · Rush

297 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 10:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
297
LENGTH
10:10
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 88 and 101-106, and 4 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
CLOCKWORK ANGELS · BAR 104
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 44, 45, 46, 76, 85, 86 and 26 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 89-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

297 bars across 25 sections: 118 keep time, 32 are fills, 12 are stops and 110 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 205-216.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 4
18 groovesS25VINQ+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clockwork Angels?

160 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Clockwork Angels hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

297 bars, about 10:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Clockwork Angels?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 44, 45, 46, 76, 85, 86 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 297 BARS ANALYSED
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