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Carry The Cross · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 35 OF 54
Fill at bar 89
114 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carry The Cross on drums

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.

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
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-89, ride through bars 90-97 and snare through bars 98-129.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Carry The Cross -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-77 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-94 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part T and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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