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caravan · Drum Solo
EXERCISE 7 OF 71
Groove BP -- Part BP
35 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART BP
PART F
PART AK
CHORUS
BREAK 4
CHORUS 2
PART BP
PART BP
11 groovesAFAKBPS10+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play caravan on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-12, ride through bars 13-21, snare through bars 22-23, ride through bars 24-32 and snare through bars 33-38, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 11 and 90, and 7 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 37 and 51 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BP -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part AK -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is caravan?

140 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 caravan hard to play on drums?

56 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 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 caravan?

18 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 37 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED