Condemned to Carnage · Macerate

143 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-33 and 35-36, and 5 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CONDEMNED TO CARNAGE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 22, 26, 41 and 22 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 15 sections: 75 keep time, 28 are fills, 12 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-40.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART AO
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesQAFGS15C+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Condemned to Carnage?

100 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Condemned to Carnage hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 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 Condemned to Carnage?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 22, 26, 41 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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