Skewered From Ear To Eye · Cannibal Corpse

197 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 22 and 28, and 10 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
SKEWERED FROM EAR TO EYE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 197.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 197
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 17 sections: 172 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART D
CHORUS 5
9 groovesADJLC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skewered From Ear To Eye?

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 Skewered From Ear To Eye hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 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 Skewered From Ear To Eye?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 197.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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