Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains · Cannibal Corpse

94 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 6 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SCATTERED REMAINS, SPLATTERED BRAINS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 18 and 10 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 9 sections: 53 keep time, 16 are fills, 13 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-43.

CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
PART U
PART Z
PART N
OUTRO
8 groovesGNQUZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains?

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 18 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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