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Carnival Diablos · Annihilator

EXERCISE 8 OF 43
Groove C
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART K
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDJFK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carnival Diablos on drums

193 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 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
193
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-80 and ride through bars 81-96, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 41-55 and 81-95, and 1 more place -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Carnival Diablos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 56, 80, 120, 128, 160 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-44 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 71-130 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-84 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-116 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carnival Diablos?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Carnival Diablos hard to play on drums?

46 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 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 Carnival Diablos?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 56, 80, 120, 128, 160 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED