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California Dreamin' · The Mamas and The Papas

California Dreamin' · The Mamas and The Papas
EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play California Dreamin' on drums

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

53 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
73
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-73.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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