Open Face Surgery · Cryptopsy

200 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-45, 55-61 and 124-130 -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
OPEN FACE SURGERY · BARS 40-41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 28, 29, 38 and 42 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 20 sections: 130 keep time, 48 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-19.

PART D
PART Q
CHORUS 2
9 groovesAADQAEK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Open Face Surgery?

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

Is Open Face Surgery hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Face Surgery?

21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 28, 29, 38 and 42 more.

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