She had Me at Heads Carolina · Cole Swindell

112 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-18, 20-23 and 33-34, and 15 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SHE HAD ME AT HEADS CAROLINA · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 39, 55, 63, 71, 82, 91 and 4 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 12 sections: 73 keep time, 10 are fills, 5 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDLHQS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She had Me at Heads Carolina?

135 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 She had Me at Heads Carolina hard to play on drums?

42 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 She had Me at Heads Carolina?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 39, 55, 63, 71, 82, 91 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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