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Carpe Diem Baby · Metallica

EXERCISE 5 OF 49
Run D1 · Part D (bars 4-8)
45 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carpe Diem Baby on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-111.

The beat

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.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----------x-----|
Carpe Diem Baby -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-60 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-37 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-58 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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