Cars Outside · James Arthur

52 bars, 2:46, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 1 more place -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
CARS OUTSIDE · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 18, 22, 26, 30, 40, 44 and 2 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 7 sections: 33 keep time, 8 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-17.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART M
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBIGMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cars Outside?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Cars Outside hard to play on drums?

42 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Cars Outside?

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 18, 22, 26, 30, 40, 44 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
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