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Carl Barker · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 19 OF 58
Run I1 · Part I (bars 33-47)
133 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carl Barker on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-28, snare through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-48 and toms through bars 49-80, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |x-----x-----x---|
T1 |--x-----x-------|
T2 |---x-----x------|
BD |x---x-x---x-x-x-|
Carl Barker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- P, R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and Part P -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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