Carry On My WayWard Son · Kansas

167 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 5:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-71 and 73-79 -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 119 BPM
CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 31, 33, 165 and 166.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 165-166 · LANDS ON BAR 167 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 17 sections: 122 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-109.

PART C
PART C
PART S5
PART K
PART S
PART U
CHORUS
PART S
PART AX
OUTRO 2
14 groovesZSCUK+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carry On My WayWard Son?

119 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 Carry On My WayWard Son hard to play on drums?

63 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 My WayWard Son?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 31, 33, 165 and 166.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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