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A Skull Full Of Maggots · Cannibal Corpse

EXERCISE 6 OF 36
Groove F -- Part F
75 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Skull Full Of Maggots on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32 and kick and crashes through bars 33-37, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
A Skull Full Of Maggots -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 13-35 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 79-96 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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