Chariot · Gavin Degraw

88 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-71 and 73-88 -- 98.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
CHARIOT · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 2 sections: 67 keep time, 20 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-36.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chariot?

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 Chariot hard to play on drums?

40 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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