California · Phantom Planet

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 27-34 and 51-57 -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 78 BPM
CALIFORNIA · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 38, 42, 58, 59, 60 and 2 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 58-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 8 sections: 36 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is California?

78 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?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in California?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 38, 42, 58, 59, 60 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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