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The Clairvoyant · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 24 OF 85
Hold Groove J for 8 bars -- Part J (bars 65-72)
117 / 211 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART AR
PART E
PART J
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJREAFB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 14
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Clairvoyant on drums

211 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64, ride through bars 65-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-88, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 66-71 and 90-95, and 4 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
The Clairvoyant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 32, 52, 56, 60, 62, 63 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-139 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-89 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-65 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Clairvoyant?

205 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 The Clairvoyant hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Clairvoyant?

15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 32, 52, 56, 60, 62, 63 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED