Caramel · Conan Gray

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 8 and 30-34, and 7 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
CARAMEL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 45, 53, 57, 65, 71 and 8 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 5 sections: 66 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-28.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caramel?

105 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 Caramel hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Caramel?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 45, 53, 57, 65, 71 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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