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Candy Coated Corpse · Peelingflesh

EXERCISE 3 OF 46
Groove Q -- Part Q
32 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART U
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBDWQH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Candy Coated Corpse on drums

104 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 1:57 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-35, ride through bars 36-41, hi-hat through bars 42-55 and ride through bars 56-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-13, 42-43 and 45-46, and 2 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8                        9
    1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------|o---o---o-------o-------|
SD |------------------------|x-----------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------|----x---x-------x-------|
Candy Coated Corpse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 38, 41, 48 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-34 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-66 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Candy Coated Corpse?

150 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Candy Coated Corpse hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 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 Candy Coated Corpse?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 38, 41, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED