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carpe diem · Naoki

carpe diem · Naoki
EXERCISE 14 OF 98
Fill at bar 32
119 / 262 BARS COVERED
0 / 98 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART AF
OUTRO 2
16 groovesFEIAFS1+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 5
JOIN · 18
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play carpe diem on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
262
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33, silence through bars 34-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-49, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-195 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-63 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 90-107 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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