ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carbon Copy on drums

179 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 235 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 179
LENGTH: 3:23
DIFFICULTY: 75/100

snare through bars 2-62, toms through bars 63-64, ride through bars 65-72, hi-hat through bars 73-74, snare through bars 75-104 and toms through bars 105-108, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 81, 83-85 and 87, and 2 more places -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    83                               84
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-x-x-------x-x-x---x-x-x---|x---------------x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|

Carbon Copy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 23, 26, 30, 32, 43, 48 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part C and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part L and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part L and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
Through Part Z and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
and 15 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Carbon Copy?

235 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Carbon Copy hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Carbon Copy?

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 23, 26, 30, 32, 43, 48 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED