Autumn Leaves · Eric Clapton

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:22 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 13-30 and 34-36, and 4 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
AUTUMN LEAVES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 7 sections: 103 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-108.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Autumn Leaves?

85 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 Autumn Leaves hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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