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California · Beabadoobee

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 23 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play California on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, ride through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-28, hi-hat through bars 29-38, ride through bars 39-46 and snare through bars 47-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
California -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-26 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-53 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED