Care · Dance Gavin Dance

185 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 157 BPM, 3:57 of playing on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 145-147, 149-151 and 153-155, and 3 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 157 BPM
CARE · BARS 145-146
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 34, 36, 46, 48, 49, 68 and 23 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 12 sections: 56 keep time, 29 are fills, 61 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 145-159.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART M
PART S9
PART S
OUTRO
9 groovesBDS9SW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Care?

157 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Care hard to play on drums?

51 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 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 34, 36, 46, 48, 49, 68 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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