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Wretched Spawn · Cannibal Corpse

EXERCISE 5 OF 71
Groove R -- Part R
56 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART R
PART C
PART K
PART K
PART R
CHORUS
PART AG
OUTRO
13 groovesZKCRAG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wretched Spawn on drums

207 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 6:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-25, ride through bars 26-43, hi-hat through bars 44-57, ride through bars 58-73 and kick and crashes through bars 74-75, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 115-117, 119 and 123-125, and 11 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    115
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Wretched Spawn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 29, 37, 45 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 11 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-29 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-46 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wretched Spawn?

122 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 Wretched Spawn hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 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 Wretched Spawn?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 29, 37, 45 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED