Sick Cycle Carousel · Lifehouse

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-27 and 50-52, and 10 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SICK CYCLE CAROUSEL · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 6 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 2 sections: 86 keep time, 12 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-109.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sick Cycle Carousel?

96 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 Sick Cycle Carousel hard to play on drums?

46 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Sick Cycle Carousel?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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