CAROLINE · Thxsomch

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-24 and 38-43, and 2 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CAROLINE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 7 sections: 45 keep time, 7 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBFS1S3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is CAROLINE?

90 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?

35 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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