California Dreamin' · The Mamas and The Papas

73 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 21-31 and 53-55, and 2 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 60 and 72.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 7 sections: 56 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-51.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is California Dreamin'?

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 Dreamin' hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in California Dreamin'?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 60 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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