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Carry On My WayWard Son · Kansas

EXERCISE 9 OF 61
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
51 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART C
PART C
PART H
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carry On My WayWard Son on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-28, ride through bars 29-34 and silence through bars 35-43, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    66
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---------x-----------x--|
BD |x--x--------x-----x-----|
Carry On My WayWard Son -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- U, Z -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part S5 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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