Under Grass And Clover · Children Of Bodom

159 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 49-63 and 98-112 -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
UNDER GRASS AND CLOVER · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 40, 48, 64 and 10 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 12 sections: 117 keep time, 16 are fills, 11 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-39.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGDLAN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Under Grass And Clover?

190 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 Under Grass And Clover hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 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 Under Grass And Clover?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 40, 48, 64 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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