California · Beabadoobee

79 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 29-37 and 64-69 -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
CALIFORNIA · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 77 and 79.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 10 sections: 52 keep time, 2 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-13.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGES8AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is California?

112 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 California hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in California?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 77 and 79.

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