Wo sind die Clowns? · Saltatio Mortis

156 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-34, 52-74 and 92-107, and 2 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
WO SIND DIE CLOWNS? · BARS 28-29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 19, 26, 27, 35, 43, 50 and 9 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 11 sections: 108 keep time, 15 are fills, 13 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-74.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
6 groovesGJBS1N+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wo sind die Clowns??

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Wo sind die Clowns? hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Wo sind die Clowns??

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 19, 26, 27, 35, 43, 50 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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