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Carnage · Mayhem

EXERCISE 8 OF 37
Groove F
61 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDLZS16G+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carnage on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and ride through bars 33-36, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Carnage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 19-25 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-43 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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