start the car · Jude Cole

124 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 23 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
START THE CAR · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 34, 42, 54, 58, 69 and 10 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 5 sections: 91 keep time, 16 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-33.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBLS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is start the car?

110 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 start the car hard to play on drums?

45 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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 start the car?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 34, 42, 54, 58, 69 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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