Change The World live · Eric Clapton

169 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 32 more places -- 33.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
CHANGE THE WORLD LIVE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 69, 70, 71, 105, 113, 127 and 10 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 13 sections: 131 keep time, 16 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-42.

CHORUS
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
9 groovesBFQS12C+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Change The World live?

108 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 Change The World live hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Change The World live?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 69, 70, 71, 105, 113, 127 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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