The Face of the Clown · Vindicta

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 43 and 45, and 14 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
THE FACE OF THE CLOWN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 15 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 18-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 13 sections: 68 keep time, 21 are fills, 12 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-34.

PART B
PART J
BREAK
PART X
PART AE
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesSJDXAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Face of the Clown?

88 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 Face of the Clown hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Face of the Clown?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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