The Ballad Of Tommy Clayton And The Rawdawg Millionaire · Of Mice & Men

126 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 10, and 11 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
THE BALLAD OF TOMMY CLAYTON AND THE RAWDAWG MILLIONAIRE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 27, 31, 39, 41, 43 and 10 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 12 sections: 80 keep time, 16 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART T
PART Z
PART AC
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
11 groovesBTDACAJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ballad Of Tommy Clayton And The Rawdawg Millionaire?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Ballad Of Tommy Clayton And The Rawdawg Millionaire hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Ballad Of Tommy Clayton And The Rawdawg Millionaire?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 27, 31, 39, 41, 43 and 10 more.

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