Carpe Diem Baby · Metallica

111 bars, 6:05, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 12-17, and 7 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
CARPE DIEM BABY · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 28, 47, 52, 53, 55 and 10 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 13 sections: 73 keep time, 16 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-67.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART W
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesGMBWD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carpe Diem Baby?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Carpe Diem Baby hard to play on drums?

62 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Carpe Diem Baby?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 28, 47, 52, 53, 55 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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