To Breathe In a Casket (Accurate) · Necrophagist

192 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-16, 19-20 and 27-28, and 11 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
TO BREATHE IN A CASKET (ACCURATE) · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 130 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 124 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 20-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 14 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 11 sections: 46 keep time, 130 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-111.

CHORUS
PART AT
PART AX
PART BM
OUTRO
7 groovesLAXATBMAH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Breathe In a Casket (Accurate)?

138 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 To Breathe In a Casket (Accurate) hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 19 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 To Breathe In a Casket (Accurate)?

20 fills to learn, played 130 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 124 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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