Old Love · Eric Clapton

125 bars, 7:28, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
7:28
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 27-28 and 30, and 5 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 67 BPM
OLD LOVE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 14 sections: 97 keep time, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-65.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART R
PART C
PART AO
OUTRO
9 groovesECGSR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Old Love?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Old Love hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 7:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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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