Carousel · Axel Rudi Pell

281 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 8:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
281
LENGTH
8:02
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-61, 63-70 and 89, and 12 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
CAROUSEL · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 16, 25, 26, 27, 43 and 32 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

281 bars across 22 sections: 209 keep time, 38 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 176-194.

PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AB
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART C
9 groovesRJCDAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carousel?

140 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 Carousel hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

281 bars, about 8:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 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 Carousel?

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 16, 25, 26, 27, 43 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 281 BARS ANALYSED
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