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EXERCISE 13 OF 34
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 39-41)
109 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carousel on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
74/100

ride through bars 1-32, toms through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-54, snare through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-88, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Carousel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F, A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-57 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 55-105 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED