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Faster Than The Clock · Sim

EXERCISE 12 OF 68
4-bar fill at bar 5
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PART S2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Faster Than The Clock on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-36, ride through bars 37-47, toms through bars 48-50, snare through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-78, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Faster Than The Clock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-20 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-53 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-56 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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