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The Clansman · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 5 OF 13
Join Part A to Part B (bars 15-17)
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0 / 13 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART B
PART A
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCS3S5ABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Clansman on drums

300 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 8:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
300
LENGTH
8:53
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, silence through bars 29-76, hi-hat through bars 77-186, silence through bars 187-223 and hi-hat through bars 224-300.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-99, 101-115 and 117-134, and 10 more places -- 81.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
The Clansman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 10 times: bars 100, 116, 135, 146, 154, 162 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-29 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Clansman?

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 Clansman hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

300 bars, about 8:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Clansman?

1 fill to learn, played 10 times: bars 100, 116, 135, 146, 154, 162 and 4 more.

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