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Clumsy · Our Lady Peace

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove B -- Part B
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clumsy on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-40, snare through bars 41-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-63, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x--x----x-xx-x--|
Clumsy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-83 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-41 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-54 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-83 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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