Carry The Cross · Arch Enemy

129 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 50-56 and 82-88, and 3 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
CARRY THE CROSS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 15 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 2-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 11 sections: 84 keep time, 21 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-120.

CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHMJOT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carry The Cross?

124 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 The Cross 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 The Cross?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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