Caravan. · John Wasson

379 bars at 282 BPM -- fast, and 5:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
282 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
379
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70-75, 77 and 86-91, and 17 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 282 BPM
CARAVAN. · BAR 74
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 39, 40, 47 and 105 more.

LOOP · 282 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 282 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 282 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 282 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

379 bars across 29 sections: 194 keep time, 111 are fills and 34 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 186-218.

CHORUS 2
PART AP
CHORUS 3
PART ED
16 groovesBAEADAPED+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caravan.?

282 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Caravan. hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

379 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 118 exercises over 46 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Caravan.?

33 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 39, 40, 47 and 105 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 379 BARS ANALYSED
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