Carving A Giant · Gorgoroth

123 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-66, 86-91 and 98-99, and 1 more place -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
CARVING A GIANT · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 34, 68 and 1 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 10 sections: 93 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-66.

PART A
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART P
BREAK 2
8 groovesIAPNS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carving A Giant?

185 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Carving A Giant hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Carving A Giant?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 34, 68 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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