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Clown · Korn

EXERCISE 17 OF 50
Groove M
49 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGCSVK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clown on drums

78 bars, 4:13, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-46, toms through bars 47-48, ride through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-74, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-16, 18-19 and 31-34, and 1 more place -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13                               14
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------------------------------|----------------------------x---|
RD |--------------------------------|--------------------------x-----|
HH |xxxxo----xxxo---xxxxo----xxxo---|xxxxo----xxxo---xxxxo-----------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
HF |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
Clown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 20, 24, 38 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Clown?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Clown hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Clown?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 20, 24, 38 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED