Open Casket · Death

212 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40, 61-71 and 77-83, and 5 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
OPEN CASKET · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24 and 24 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 25 sections: 136 keep time, 30 are fills, 21 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 190-207.

PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
14 groovesIESPJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Open Casket?

160 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?

212 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Open Casket?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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