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Eric Clapton · Old Love

Eric Clapton · Old Love
EXERCISE 11 OF 66
Run G1 · Part G (bars 10-15)
62 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eric Clapton on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-47, ride through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-51, ride through bars 52-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-67, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Eric Clapton -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 14-26 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-34 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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