Caravan · Duke Ellington

64 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:08 of playing, on ride, hi-hat and snare.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CARAVAN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 2 sections: 62 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caravan?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat and snare. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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