I Can See Clearly Now · Johnny Nash

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 7-10 and 31-35, and 1 more place -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 16 sections: 68 keep time and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-85.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART A
PART D
PART G
PART H
PART I
PART J
PART C
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesABICD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Can See Clearly Now?

120 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 I Can See Clearly Now hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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