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Carnal Prisoner · Carnal

EXERCISE 11 OF 75
Run C1 · Part C (bars 1-20)
68 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART F
PART C
CHORUS
PART V
PART AE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesJFCVAE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carnal Prisoner on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-38, ride through bars 39-49, toms through bars 50-55, hi-hat through bars 56-68 and ride through bars 69-80, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 21 more places -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Carnal Prisoner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 19, 37, 38, 42, 50 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carnal Prisoner?

145 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 Carnal Prisoner hard to play on drums?

63 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Carnal Prisoner?

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 19, 37, 38, 42, 50 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED