Car Lights · James Marriott

69 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 1:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-33 and 45-50 -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 146 BPM
CAR LIGHTS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 6 sections: 52 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEBS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Car Lights?

146 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 Car Lights hard to play on drums?

47 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Car Lights?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

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