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Carpathian Ridge · Akkirus Risen

EXERCISE 8 OF 43
Groove F
158 / 215 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIBDJQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carpathian Ridge on drums

215 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-65, snare through bars 66-96, hi-hat through bars 97-113, snare through bars 114-129, hi-hat through bars 130-161 and snare through bars 162-215.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 52 and 54, and 9 more places -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 41, 49, 81, 97, 105, 113 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- I, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 34-114 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-115 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-122 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carpathian Ridge?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Carpathian Ridge hard to play on drums?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Carpathian Ridge?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 41, 49, 81, 97, 105, 113 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED