Hammer Smashed Face · Cannibal Corpse

215 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-39, 66-73 and 101-102, and 5 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
HAMMER SMASHED FACE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 23, 42, 46, 59, 63, 78 and 22 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 78-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 20 sections: 134 keep time, 28 are fills, 28 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART D
PART AD
8 groovesJBLADN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hammer Smashed Face?

195 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Hammer Smashed Face hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Hammer Smashed Face?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 23, 42, 46, 59, 63, 78 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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