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Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot · 1974 HITS ARCHIVE

EXERCISE 13 OF 15
Groove N
106 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot on drums

116 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 3:39 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-21, snare through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 38 and 46-47, and 11 more places -- 54% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    38
    1e+a2e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x---|
BD |x-------|
Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 39, 74 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot?

85 BPM, in 2/4, 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 Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 39, 74 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED