Open Casket · Death

247 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40, 61 and 63, and 20 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
OPEN CASKET · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 24, 44 and 25 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

247 bars across 22 sections: 173 keep time, 31 are fills, 21 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-40.

PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
PART AD
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesIEAGWAD+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Open Casket?

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

Is Open Casket hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Open Casket?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 24, 44 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED
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