Sweet Home Chicago · Eric Clapton

146 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-22 and 25-34, and 9 more places -- 83.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SWEET HOME CHICAGO · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 24, 36, 40, 48, 60 and 7 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 107-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 2 sections: 124 keep time, 13 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-142.

OUTRO
2 groovesAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Home Chicago?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sweet Home Chicago hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Sweet Home Chicago?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 24, 36, 40, 48, 60 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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