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Bell Bottom Blues · Eric Clapton

Bell Bottom Blues · Eric Clapton
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EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove F -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 15 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bell Bottom Blues on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bars 2-87.

The beat

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.

    13                                               14
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------------------|
SD |------------x--------g--------------x-----------|------------x--------g-----------x--x-----------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------|------------------------------x-----x-----x-----|
FT |------------------------------------------------|------------------------------x--------------x--|
BD |x-----x--x--------x-----x-----x--x--------x-----|x-----x--x--------x-----x-----------------------|
Bell Bottom Blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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