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Autumn Leaves · Eric Clapton

EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
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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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Autumn Leaves on drums

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

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, snare through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-36 and snare through bars 37-39, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Autumn Leaves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-52 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED