Closed Casket Requiem · The Black Dahlia Murder

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 13 more places -- 13.6% 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
CLOSED CASKET REQUIEM · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 21 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 6-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 27 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-28.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART T
PART X
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHBADTQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Closed Casket Requiem?

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 Closed Casket Requiem hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Closed Casket Requiem?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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