I Shot the Sheriff · Eric Clapton

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 30-40 and 51-61, and 2 more places -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
I SHOT THE SHERIFF · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 11 sections: 94 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-106.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS7Fill 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?

52 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?

106 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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