Handle With Care · Traveling Wilburys

95 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-29 and 35, and 6 more places -- 83.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
HANDLE WITH CARE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 36, 44, 72, 80 and 88.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 5 sections: 85 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-65.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Handle With Care?

115 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 Handle With Care hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Handle With Care?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 36, 44, 72, 80 and 88.

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