Carnival · Cardigans

86 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 28-34 and 54-68 -- 36.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 111 BPM
CARNIVAL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 26, 27, 52, 53, 74 and 2 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 10 sections: 60 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-68.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBEHS8S10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carnival?

111 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Carnival hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Carnival?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 26, 27, 52, 53, 74 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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