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Fast Car · Luke Combs

EXERCISE 6 OF 16
Groove C
99 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fast Car on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |r---r---r---r---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Fast Car -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B, D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 47-92 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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