Eric Clapton · Old Love

123 bars, 7:14, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 27, and 16 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 66 BPM
ERIC CLAPTON · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 41 and 19 more.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 26 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-80.

CHORUS
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCJDUG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eric Clapton?

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

Is Eric Clapton hard to play on drums?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 7:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Eric Clapton?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 41 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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