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Carouselambra · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 26 OF 53
Fill at bar 97, 105, 113 and 115 (a small one)
205 / 271 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART C
PART J
PART J
PART J
CHORUS
PART U
PART U
OUTRO 2
8 groovesQCUJX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carouselambra on drums

271 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 9:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
271
LENGTH
9:11
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-119, ride through bars 120-176, hi-hat through bars 177-204, ride through bars 205-212 and hi-hat through bars 213-240, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10 and 13-14, and 19 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 15, 23, 27, 31, 39 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- C, Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 98-120 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carouselambra?

118 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 Carouselambra hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

271 bars, about 9:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 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 Carouselambra?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 15, 23, 27, 31, 39 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 271 BARS ANALYSED