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Sick Cycle Carousel · Lifehouse

EXERCISE 15 OF 22
2-bar fill at bar 64
92 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sick Cycle Carousel on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-73, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Sick Cycle Carousel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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