Magic Carpet Ride · Steppenwolf

123 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-27 and 35-48 -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 131 BPM
MAGIC CARPET RIDE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 122 and 123.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 122-123 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 13 sections: 86 keep time, 2 are fills, 7 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-84.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK 3
PART F
OUTRO
11 groovesDCJFS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Magic Carpet Ride?

131 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 Magic Carpet Ride hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Magic Carpet Ride?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 122 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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