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Caroline · Fleetwood Mac

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove A -- Verse 3
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0 / 12 PASSED · 75 BARS LIT
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
4 groovesADBS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Caroline on drums

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

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-89.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-9 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-21 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED