Car Wash · Rose Royce

97 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-45, 47-53 and 55-61, and 3 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 114 BPM
CAR WASH · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 38, 54, 74, 76, 77, 85 and 1 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-37.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHDCS6J+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Car Wash?

114 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 Wash hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Wash?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 38, 54, 74, 76, 77, 85 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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