Counting Blue Cars · Dishwalla

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 26-28, and 15 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
COUNTING BLUE CARS · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 17, 29, 33, 35, 43 and 14 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 8 sections: 85 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-85.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDOBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Counting Blue Cars?

100 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 Counting Blue Cars hard to play on drums?

63 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Counting Blue Cars?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 17, 29, 33, 35, 43 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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