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Sweet Home Chicago · Eric Clapton

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove A -- Outro
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OUTRO
2 groovesAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Home Chicago on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
81/100

hi-hat through bars 1-142, ride through bars 143-144 and kick and crashes through bars 145-146.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x---x-o---x-x---x-o---x-|
SD |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Sweet Home Chicago -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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