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Carry On · Crosby Stills Nash

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove J -- Chorus
0 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART G
PART S10
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJGEFS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carry On on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, 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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, ride through bars 24-28, hi-hat through bars 29-33 and ride through bars 34-38, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-63, 69 and 72, and 3 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-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

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 44, 70, 90, 100 and 102.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- J, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-19 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-45 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-93 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-104 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carry On?

140 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 44, 70, 90, 100 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED