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Heads Carolina, Tails California · Jo Dee Messina

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART C
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesEFCS2J+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heads Carolina, Tails California on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-20, snare through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40 and snare through bars 41-45, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 26-36 and 38-40, and 4 more places -- 67% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Heads Carolina, Tails California -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 37, 57, 76 and 77.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-41 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Heads Carolina, Tails California?

137 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 Heads Carolina, Tails California hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 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 Heads Carolina, Tails California?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 37, 57, 76 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED