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Lawnmower Obliteration · Devoured Carcass

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
Groove K -- Part K
45 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AE
OUTRO
13 groovesHABMAEE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lawnmower Obliteration on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-25, ride through bars 26-44, hi-hat through bars 45-66, ride through bars 67-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-81, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|
Lawnmower Obliteration -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED