Sweet Caroline · Neil Diamond

108 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 8-21 and 46-59, and 1 more place -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SWEET CAROLINE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 71, 90 and 96.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 6 sections: 88 keep time, 4 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Caroline?

127 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sweet Caroline hard to play on drums?

61 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sweet Caroline?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 71, 90 and 96.

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