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Care · Conan Gray

EXERCISE 28 OF 29
Run K1 · Outro 2 (bars 84-93)
83 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGKS9J+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Care on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28 and ride through bars 29-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 17-20, and 9 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 28, 47, 48, 60 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, G -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-49 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-73 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-93 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Care?

112 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 Care hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Care?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 28, 47, 48, 60 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED