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EXERCISE 6 OF 98
Groove E -- Part E
54 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 98 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
PART N
BREAK 3
PART AJ
PART E
OUTRO
14 groovesICNS12AJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carrion Ladder on drums

194 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-23, snare through bars 24-25, ride through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-36 and snare through bars 37-62, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-35, 37-38 and 41, and 12 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Carrion Ladder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 18, 23, 36, 40, 43, 46 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  8. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carrion Ladder?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Carrion Ladder hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 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 Carrion Ladder?

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 18, 23, 36, 40, 43, 46 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED