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Hammer Smashed Face · Cannibal Corpse

EXERCISE 12 OF 69
Groove H -- Part H
97 / 215 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART H
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hammer Smashed Face on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-12, snare through bars 13-16, silence through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-23 and ride through bars 24-27, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Hammer Smashed Face -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- J, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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