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The Clown Is Dead · Axel Rudi Pell

EXERCISE 1 OF 93
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART S4
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART O
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
18 groovesEGOS4AK+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Clown Is Dead on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
351
LENGTH
11:42
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-53, ride through bars 54-62, hi-hat through bars 63-96, ride through bars 97-114, hi-hat through bars 115-132 and ride through bars 133-148, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    55
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------------------------|
The Clown Is Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-64 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-115 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 111-128 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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