Riding With The King · Eric Clapton

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 50-51 and 67-72, and 7 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
RIDING WITH THE KING · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 73 and 93.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 11 sections: 101 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-121.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHCKGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riding With The King?

100 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 Riding With The King hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Riding With The King?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 73 and 93.

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