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Wo sind die Clowns? · Saltatio Mortis

Wo sind die Clowns? · Saltatio Mortis
EXERCISE 35 OF 35
Play the whole song with the record
145 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 156 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGJBS1N+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wo sind die Clowns? on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-49, toms through bars 50-51, hi-hat through bars 52-89, toms through bars 90-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-115, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    28               29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Wo sind die Clowns? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G, J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 12-36 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-55 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 105-119 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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