Lawnmower Obliteration · Devoured Carcass

108 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-22, 26-38 and 67-77 -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
LAWNMOWER OBLITERATION · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 101, 102 and 103.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 101-103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 15 sections: 90 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-38.

PART E
CHORUS
PART M
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AE
OUTRO
13 groovesHABMAEE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lawnmower Obliteration?

200 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 Lawnmower Obliteration hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 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 Lawnmower Obliteration?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 101, 102 and 103.

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