Carl Barker · Dance Gavin Dance

193 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-79 and 145-159 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
CARL BARKER · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 52, 56, 60, 80, 88 and 13 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 13 sections: 141 keep time, 19 are fills, 17 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

PART D
PART I
PART L
PART P
CHORUS
VERSE
PART L
PART P
OUTRO
10 groovesRLPDAB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carl Barker?

132 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 Carl Barker hard to play on drums?

60 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Carl Barker?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 52, 56, 60, 80, 88 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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