Fast Car · Luke Combs

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-40, 51-61 and 93-104 -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
FAST CAR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 45, 66, 87 and 105.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 5 sections: 83 keep time, 4 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-40.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fast Car?

98 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 Fast Car hard to play on drums?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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 Fast Car?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 45, 66, 87 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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