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Cliffs Of Dover · Eric Johnson

EXERCISE 4 OF 49
Groove F -- Part F
73 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cliffs Of Dover on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-15, silence through bars 16-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40 and ride through bars 41-56, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    43
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-----x-----x--------|
Cliffs Of Dover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- I, J -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 21-57 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-95 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 119-151 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 148-181 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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