carpe diem · Naoki

262 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
262
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 47 and 57-62, and 9 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
CARPE DIEM · BAR 68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 23, 32, 54, 55, 56, 63 and 35 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

262 bars across 27 sections: 133 keep time, 41 are fills, 23 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 242-261.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART AF
OUTRO 2
16 groovesFEIAFS1+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is carpe diem?

210 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 carpe diem hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

262 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 23, 32, 54, 55, 56, 63 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 262 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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