Guitars, Cadillacs · Dwight Yoakam

128 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / Folk150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-127 -- 99.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 170 BPM
GUITARS, CADILLACS · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 2 sections: 123 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-127.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Guitars, Cadillacs?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Guitars, Cadillacs hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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