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Carousel · Axel Rudi Pell

EXERCISE 23 OF 85
Groove M
209 / 281 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART F
PART J
PART F
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carousel on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
281
LENGTH
8:02
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-23, hi-hat through bars 24-71, ride through bars 72-86, hi-hat through bars 87-213 and silence through bars 214-216, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Carousel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- R -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, J -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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