Slit Wrist Savior · Carnifex

178 bars at 217 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
217 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 34-40 and 66-72, and 2 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 217 BPM
SLIT WRIST SAVIOR · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 17, 45, 49, 53, 57 and 12 more.

LOOP · 217 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 217 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 217 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 217 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 22 sections: 123 keep time, 18 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-141.

PART H
PART N
PART O
PART N
PART M
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART AH
PART AK
PART AQ
14 groovesEHNAQO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slit Wrist Savior?

217 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Slit Wrist Savior hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Slit Wrist Savior?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 17, 45, 49, 53, 57 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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