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Counting Blue Cars · Dishwalla

Counting Blue Cars · Dishwalla
EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove C -- Chorus 2
0 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Counting Blue Cars on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-71, snare through bars 72-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-119.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x--x-----|
Counting Blue Cars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-105 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-60 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-110 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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