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Carry On · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove N -- Part N
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0 / 71 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
PART O
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJNGALO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carry On on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26 and snare through bars 27-28, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-38, 41-46 and 69-74, and 3 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x--x-x--|
Carry On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 22 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-33 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-51 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carry On?

134 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Carry On hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Carry On?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 22 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED