River Of Tears · Eric Clapton

126 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 6:34 of playing on ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-23 and 25-75, and 1 more place -- 97.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
RIVER OF TEARS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 4 sections: 83 keep time and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-75.

CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
3 groovesAS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is River Of Tears?

115 BPM, in 6/4, 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 River Of Tears hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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