The Carpal Tunnel Of Love · Fall Out Boy

111 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-22, and 19 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 141 BPM
THE CARPAL TUNNEL OF LOVE · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 23, 24, 27 and 20 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 10 sections: 47 keep time, 26 are fills, 29 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-102.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEKCOS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Carpal Tunnel Of Love?

141 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 The Carpal Tunnel Of Love hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Carpal Tunnel Of Love?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 23, 24, 27 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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