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Feeding the Meatgrinder Feat. Corpsegrinder · Shadow Of Intent

EXERCISE 22 OF 83
Run I1 · Part I (bars 20-33)
83 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART T
CHORUS 4
PART I
PART S17
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesBITASP+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feeding the Meatgrinder Feat. Corpsegrinder on drums

198 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-66, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 7-8 and 14-16, and 8 more places -- 17.4% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Feeding the Meatgrinder Feat. Corpsegrinder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 29, 37 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-26 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 49-73 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Feeding the Meatgrinder Feat. Corpsegrinder?

200 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 Feeding the Meatgrinder Feat. Corpsegrinder hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 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 Feeding the Meatgrinder Feat. Corpsegrinder?

17 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 29, 37 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED