A Skull Full Of Maggots · Cannibal Corpse

132 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-16 and 25-32, and 6 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 240 BPM
A SKULL FULL OF MAGGOTS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 23, 24, 34, 100 and 4 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 10 sections: 90 keep time, 10 are fills, 22 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-70.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART O
PART R
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDORAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Skull Full Of Maggots?

240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Skull Full Of Maggots hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A Skull Full Of Maggots?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 23, 24, 34, 100 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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