My Own Grave · As I Lay Dying

126 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47 and 67-73 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
MY OWN GRAVE · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 24 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 14 sections: 56 keep time, 30 are fills, 7 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-114.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AH
BREAK
OUTRO
11 groovesPAOFKS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Own Grave?

125 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 My Own Grave hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 My Own Grave?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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