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Infinite Misery · Cannibal Corpse

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 24 PASSED · 43 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 2
6 groovesBS8DS6S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Infinite Misery on drums

95 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 152 BPM, 3:46 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
33/100

hi-hat through bars 3-51, toms through bars 52-55, hi-hat through bars 56-63 and silence through bars 64-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 9-16 and 21, and 8 more places -- 71.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Infinite Misery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 26, 28, 37 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-64 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Infinite Misery?

152 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Infinite Misery hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Infinite Misery?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 26, 28, 37 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED