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The Clone · AMP

The Clone · AMP
EXERCISE 11 OF 53
2-bar fill at bar 57
102 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART L
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesCUOMS9+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Clone on drums

180 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-138, toms through bars 139-142, hi-hat through bars 143-168 and silence through bars 169-180.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 33-38, and 9 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 39, 47, 49, 57, 58, 66 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-105 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-112 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Clone?

200 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 Clone hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Clone?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 39, 47, 49, 57, 58, 66 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED