The Clash · Backyard Babies

111 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-14, 23-32 and 43-45, and 6 more places -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 146 BPM
THE CLASH · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 33, 53, 61 and 8 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 9 sections: 69 keep time, 14 are fills, 22 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-109.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBNFS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Clash?

146 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 The Clash hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Clash?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 33, 53, 61 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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