Chasing Cars · Snow Patrol

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-51 and 53-68 -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
CHASING CARS · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 4 sections: 61 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-34.

COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
4 groovesCBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chasing Cars?

104 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 Chasing Cars hard to play on drums?

25 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Chasing Cars?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

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