Clumsy · Our Lady Peace

92 bars, 4:54, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33-34 and 36-39 -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
CLUMSY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 18 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 11 sections: 45 keep time, 24 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGBCLR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clumsy?

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

Is Clumsy hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Clumsy?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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