ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Street Carp on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 80 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 64
LENGTH: 2:47
DIFFICULTY: 69/100

hi-hat through bars 3-11, ride through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-25, ride through bars 26-35, hi-hat through bars 36-41 and ride through bars 42-51, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-8 and 17-22 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x--x-----x---x-x|

Street Carp -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 12, 15, 16, 23, 32 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part M and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 36-58 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.

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Questions

What BPM is Street Carp?

80 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 Street Carp hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Street Carp?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 12, 15, 16, 23, 32 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED