Faster Than The Clock · Sim

122 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 53-59 and 61-66, and 2 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 206 BPM
FASTER THAN THE CLOCK · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15 and 27 more.

LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 11 sections: 69 keep time, 33 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-27.

CHORUS
PART J
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART AI
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesFJAABAI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faster Than The Clock?

206 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Faster Than The Clock hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Faster Than The Clock?

20 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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