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Five Nails Through The Neck · Cannibal Corpse

EXERCISE 22 OF 28
Join Part E to Part G (bars 39-41)
49 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS9BAGC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Five Nails Through The Neck on drums

100 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 230 BPM, 2:57 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-33, hi-hat through bars 34-38, ride through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42 and ride through bars 43-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 17-20 and 34-35, and 2 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a9e+a0e+a
CC |x---------------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Five Nails Through The Neck -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 42, 47, 48 and 49.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-32 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-52 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Five Nails Through The Neck?

230 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Five Nails Through The Neck hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Five Nails Through The Neck?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 42, 47, 48 and 49.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED