§6 · Opeth

161 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-26, 28-34 and 36-42, and 1 more place -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
§6 · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 27, 35, 43, 47, 68, 69 and 38 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 9 sections: 100 keep time, 44 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-108.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBNADANS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is §6?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 §6 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 §6?

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 27, 35, 43, 47, 68, 69 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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