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Closed Casket Requiem · The Black Dahlia Murder

EXERCISE 3 OF 52
Groove X -- Part X
28 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Closed Casket Requiem on drums

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.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
93/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-9, toms through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-33, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--x-----------x---x-----------x-|
HH |----o---o---o-------o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x---x-----x-x---x-|
Closed Casket Requiem -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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