I Shot The Sheriff · Eric Clapton

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-19, 24-40 and 47-61, and 3 more places -- 68.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
I SHOT THE SHERIFF · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 105.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 92 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-41.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesCQHMN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Shot The Sheriff?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Shot The Sheriff hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Shot The Sheriff?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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