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Carnivorous Ways · Deeds Of Flesh

EXERCISE 6 OF 47
Run B1 · Part B (bars 1-9)
25 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
PART H
PART S
PART Y
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS9ACISD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carnivorous Ways on drums

99 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 194 BPM, 2:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
100/100

ride through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-38, ride through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-71, ride through bars 72-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-79, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 22-24 and 77-78 -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Carnivorous Ways -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 38 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carnivorous Ways?

194 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Carnivorous Ways hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Carnivorous Ways?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 38 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED