Clockworks · Meshuggah

235 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 7:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
7:12
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 83-84, 91-92 and 171, and 7 more places -- 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 · 130 BPM
CLOCKWORKS · BARS 83-84
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 6, 9, 14, 17, 18, 19 and 51 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 17-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 34 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

235 bars across 21 sections: 146 keep time, 57 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-169.

PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART BV
OUTRO 2
13 groovesUBBVABCF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clockworks?

130 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 Clockworks hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 7:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 31 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Clockworks?

14 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 6, 9, 14, 17, 18, 19 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED
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