Frantic Disembowelment · Cannibal Corpse

179 bars at 254 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

254 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

179

LENGTH

2:50

DIFFICULTY

81/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-19, ride through bars 20-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-31, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 16-19 and 23-30, and 6 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 15, 22, 45, 52, 82 and 3 more.

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 58-70 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part H and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through Part I and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
8. Bars 116-169 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.