Tulsa Time · Eric Clapton

75 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 18 and 20-24, and 6 more places -- 60.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TULSA TIME · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 25 and 59.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 3 sections: 66 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-58.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tulsa Time?

140 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 Tulsa Time hard to play on drums?

49 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:09 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, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tulsa Time?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 25 and 59.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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