Caroline · Fleetwood Mac

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 10-12 and 17-20, and 2 more places -- 85.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
CAROLINE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 7 sections: 84 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-89.

CHORUS
VERSE 3
4 groovesADBS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caroline?

95 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 Caroline hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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