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Tulsa Time · Eric Clapton

EXERCISE 14 OF 14
Play the whole song with the record
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0 / 14 PASSED · 75 BARS LIT · IN THE COUNT-IN, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tulsa Time on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-75.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Tulsa Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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