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Carolus Rex · Sabaton

EXERCISE 27 OF 36
Groove Q -- Part Q
95 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
8 groovesBECNS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carolus Rex on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-26, ride through bars 27-30, toms through bars 31-57, ride through bars 58-61 and toms through bars 62-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 15-18, and 17 more places -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    8
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
FT |x-x-x-x---x-x-xxx-x-x-x---x-xxxx|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Carolus Rex -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 29, 35, 40, 59, 60 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-62 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-93 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carolus Rex?

88 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 Carolus Rex hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Carolus Rex?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 29, 35, 40, 59, 60 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED