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Car Wash · Rose Royce

Car Wash · Rose Royce
EXERCISE 15 OF 32
Fill at bar 54 (a small one)
73 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Car Wash on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-62, silence through bars 63-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-97.

The beat

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.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---g---x---g---|
Car Wash -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- H, C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-24 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-42 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S6 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 71-78 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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