I'm Tore Down · Eric Clapton

99 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-16 and 23-28, and 6 more places -- 57.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
I'M TORE DOWN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 21, 37, 45, 57 and 7 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 5 sections: 80 keep time and 13 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I'm Tore Down?

131 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 I'm Tore Down hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 I'm Tore Down?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 21, 37, 45, 57 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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