Carousel · Blink-182

145 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 52 and 57-71, and 6 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 143 BPM
CAROUSEL · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 40, 48, 55, 56, 72, 80 and 8 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 14 sections: 105 keep time, 14 are fills, 11 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFAHS13B+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carousel?

143 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?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Carousel?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 40, 48, 55, 56, 72, 80 and 8 more.

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