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Carry On Wayward Son · Kansas

EXERCISE 12 OF 72
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
59 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 2, PART AN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART M
PART R
PART O
PART W
PART H
PART AN
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCOWANR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carry On Wayward Son on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 5:36 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
168
LENGTH
5:36
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 a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 12-13 and 23-24, and 6 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                        10
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |---x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x---g-|
BD |x--x-----x-----x--------|x--x--------x--x--------|
Carry On Wayward Son -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 31, 33, 51, 55, 80 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 20-138 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-50 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-62 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carry On 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 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 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 Wayward Son?

12 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 31, 33, 51, 55, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED