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Riding With The King · Eric Clapton

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove H -- Chorus
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0 / 30 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riding With The King on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-73, ride through bars 74-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-121.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x-x-o---x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Riding With The King -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-45 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-75 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-90 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED