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Carolina IV · Angra

EXERCISE 1 OF 94
Groove K -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AC
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesKBMACP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carolina IV on drums

310 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 13:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
310
LENGTH
13:56
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-43, ride through bars 44-51, hi-hat through bars 52-67, ride through bars 68-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-79, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-50, 80-86 and 108-119, and 8 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 22, 51, 59, 67, 79, 87 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- K, B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-52 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-96 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carolina IV?

89 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 Carolina IV hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

310 bars, about 13:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Carolina IV?

22 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 22, 51, 59, 67, 79, 87 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 310 BARS ANALYSED