Cliffs Of Dover · Eric Johnson

189 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43-45 and 47, and 23 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
CLIFFS OF DOVER · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 23, 24, 39, 40, 56, 63 and 17 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 23 sections: 116 keep time, 23 are fills, 15 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-38.

COUNT-IN
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
PART O
PART R
CHORUS 4
11 groovesAFJIR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cliffs Of Dover?

136 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 Cliffs Of Dover hard to play on drums?

62 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cliffs Of Dover?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 23, 24, 39, 40, 56, 63 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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