The Clown Is Dead · Axel Rudi Pell

351 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 11:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
351
LENGTH
11:42
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 57 and 59, and 33 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE CLOWN IS DEAD · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 53, 62, 88, 96, 114, 124 and 20 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

351 bars across 32 sections: 164 keep time, 26 are fills, 64 are stops and 81 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 166-179.

PART S4
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART O
18 groovesEGOS4AK+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Clown Is Dead?

120 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 Clown Is Dead hard to play on drums?

59 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

351 bars, about 11:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Clown Is Dead?

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 53, 62, 88, 96, 114, 124 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 351 BARS ANALYSED
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