Hammer Smashed Face (D Standard) · Cannibal Corpse

215 bars at 197 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
4:17
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 · 197 BPM
HAMMER SMASHED FACE (D STANDARD) · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 23, 42, 46, 59, 61 and 23 more.

LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 21 sections: 131 keep time, 29 are fills, 28 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-91.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART E
PART AD
9 groovesKBMADO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hammer Smashed Face (D Standard)?

197 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 (D Standard) 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 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 (D Standard)?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 23, 42, 46, 59, 61 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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