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Clockwork Angels · Rush

EXERCISE 4 OF 86
Groove C -- Part C
30 / 297 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART C
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 4
18 groovesS25VINQ+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 6
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clockwork Angels on drums

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.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
297
LENGTH
10:10
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-38, toms through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-61, silence through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-68, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    104
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |------------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|
T2 |x-----------------------|
FT |x-----------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Clockwork Angels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- I, R -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-86 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-191 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-66 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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