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Caroline · Status Quo

EXERCISE 20 OF 20
Play the whole song with the record
159 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 171 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Caroline on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-171.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-23, 37-43 and 45-51, and 4 more places -- 70% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Caroline -- 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 138, 159 and 171.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-40 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 49-97 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Caroline?

150 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Caroline?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 138, 159 and 171.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED