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Carr Jam 1981 · KISS

EXERCISE 30 OF 46
7-bar fill at bar 45
48 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesOAFAMAL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carr Jam 1981 on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-38, toms through bars 39-63 and ride through bars 64-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 1 more place -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-------x---x-------------------------------|
Carr Jam 1981 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AL -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part AL and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carr Jam 1981?

106 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Carr Jam 1981 hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 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 Carr Jam 1981?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED