Sad in Carolina · Dexter and The Moonrocks

113 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-15, and 21 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SAD IN CAROLINA · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 40, 64, 71, 72, 80 and 7 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time, 13 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-63.

PART C
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesECJFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sad in Carolina?

150 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 Sad in Carolina hard to play on drums?

55 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?

113 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sad in Carolina?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 40, 64, 71, 72, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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