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The Clash · Backyard Babies

The Clash · Backyard Babies
EXERCISE 3 OF 36
Groove B -- Part B
75 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Clash on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-36 and snare through bars 37-38, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-46 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-76 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 80-93 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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