Bell Bottom Blues · Eric Clapton

87 bars, 5:06, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 20-21, and 13 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BELL BOTTOM BLUES · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 26, 34, 52 and 3 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 3 sections: 74 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-51.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bell Bottom Blues?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bell Bottom Blues hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Bell Bottom Blues?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 26, 34, 52 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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