Headlong Into Carnage · Cannibal Corpse

192 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 11-14 and 17-20, and 5 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
HEADLONG INTO CARNAGE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 32, 40 and 15 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 105-106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 27 sections: 136 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-133.

CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART N
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART F
8 groovesCFIEG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Headlong Into Carnage?

215 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 Headlong Into Carnage hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 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 Headlong Into Carnage?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 32, 40 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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