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The Clincher · Chevelle

EXERCISE 11 OF 39
Groove H -- Part H
55 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART L
PART B
PART F
PART H
PART F
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPFBLH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Clincher on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37 and ride through bars 38-39, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-44, 58-60 and 62-64, and 2 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 19, 20, 37, 38, 39 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- P, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 26-43 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Clincher?

87 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 Clincher hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Clincher?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 19, 20, 37, 38, 39 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED