Carolina In My Mind · James Taylor

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-13, 15-17 and 19-25, and 4 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
CAROLINA IN MY MIND · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 26.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 62 keep time, 1 is a fill and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-25.

CHORUS
PART H
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHKS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carolina In My Mind?

80 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 Carolina In My Mind hard to play on drums?

47 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Carolina In My Mind?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 26.

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