Corporal Jigsore Quandary · Carcass

169 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-11 and 13-19, and 4 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 147 BPM
CORPORAL JIGSORE QUANDARY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 24, 31, 32 and 35 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 11 sections: 94 keep time, 42 are fills, 7 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART Z
PART AC
BREAK
8 groovesBJACFS11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Corporal Jigsore Quandary?

147 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Corporal Jigsore Quandary hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Corporal Jigsore Quandary?

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 24, 31, 32 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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