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I'm Tore Down · Eric Clapton

EXERCISE 19 OF 20
5-bar fill at bar 95
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I'm Tore Down on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-72, kick and crashes through bars 73-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-94, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x----x--x----x--x----x--x----x--|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x------------x--x---------------|
I'm Tore Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-38 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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