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She had Me at Heads Carolina · Cole Swindell

EXERCISE 13 OF 39
Groove K
72 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play She had Me at Heads Carolina on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-25, silence through bars 26-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-82, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
She had Me at Heads Carolina -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-48 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 45-72 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-88 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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