Hammer Smashed Face · Cannibal Corpse

215 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-39, 66-73 and 101-102, and 4 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
HAMMER SMASHED FACE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 23, 31, 42, 46, 59 and 24 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 23 sections: 144 keep time, 31 are fills, 13 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 174-188.

PART A
PART A
PART Z
PART G
8 groovesHAGJL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hammer Smashed Face?

194 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?

73 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 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 23, 31, 42, 46, 59 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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