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Carnival · Cardigans

Carnival · Cardigans
EXERCISE 6 OF 27
Groove C (a two-bar phrase)
53 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S8
OUTRO
5 groovesBEHS8S10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carnival on drums

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

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, ride through bars 28-44, hi-hat through bars 45-53 and ride through bars 54-70, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-----x-|
BD |x-------------x-----x-----------|
Carnival -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-69 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-84 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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