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Sad in Carolina · Dexter and The Moonrocks

EXERCISE 5 OF 40
Groove C -- Part C
79 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sad in Carolina on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-28, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Sad in Carolina -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-73 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part F -- 11 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-109 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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