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Open Casket · Death

EXERCISE 25 OF 67
Fill at bar 52 (a small one)
154 / 247 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Open Casket on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
69/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-42, ride through bars 43-57, silence through bars 58-60, hi-hat through bars 61-71 and kick and crashes through bars 72-76, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Open Casket -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-28 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part S6 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 62-93 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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