Carnage · Mayhem

135 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 25-27, and 4 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
CARNAGE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 41, 42, 46 and 15 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 50-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 16 sections: 63 keep time, 21 are fills, 12 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-113.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDLZS16G+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carnage?

180 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 Carnage hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Carnage?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 41, 42, 46 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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