Tears In Heaven Drum · Eric Clapton

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 17 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
TEARS IN HEAVEN DRUM · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 17, 19, 23, 35, 37 and 8 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 5 sections: 62 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-78.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tears In Heaven Drum?

80 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 Tears In Heaven Drum hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Tears In Heaven Drum?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 17, 19, 23, 35, 37 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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