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Tears Of A Clown · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove O -- Chorus
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PART B
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesOFJBXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tears Of A Clown on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-23, ride through bars 24-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-32, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 30 and 34, and 15 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |o-x-------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Tears Of A Clown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 11, 65, 67, 69, 71 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- O, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tears Of A Clown?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Tears Of A Clown hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Tears Of A Clown?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 11, 65, 67, 69, 71 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED