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Carnival (full song) · Bikini Kill

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carnival (full song) on drums

73 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 1:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-43 and snare through bars 44-45, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 18-24 and 26-28, and 4 more places -- 84.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Carnival (full song) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 29, 41, 44 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Carnival (full song)?

175 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 (full song) hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Carnival (full song)?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 29, 41, 44 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED