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Carmen On One Guitar “Acoustic Section” · Marcin

EXERCISE 13 OF 22
Join Part D to Part G (bars 42-44)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART G
PART A
PART G
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
8 groovesS10GDAS5+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carmen On One Guitar “Acoustic Section” on drums

123 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-30, silence through bars 31-36, toms through bars 37-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-41 and toms through bars 42-55, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26 and 28, and 9 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |------------d-----------------------X-----------|
T1 |------------------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------------|
Carmen On One Guitar “Acoustic Section” -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-42 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 56-123 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Carmen On One Guitar “Acoustic Section”?

160 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 Carmen On One Guitar “Acoustic Section” hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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