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Sweet Caroline · Neil Diamond

Sweet Caroline · Neil Diamond
EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 24 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Caroline on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-8, toms through bars 9-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-23, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
BD |x-----------------------|
HF |------x-----------x-----|
Sweet Caroline -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A, G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-108 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED