Advent · Opeth

442 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 13:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
442
LENGTH
13:54
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 184-199 and 216-231 -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
ADVENT · BARS 184-185
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 37, 52, 64 and 25 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

442 bars across 32 sections: 227 keep time, 34 are fills, 12 are stops and 134 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 156-174.

PART S23
BREAK 2
28 groovesS32BAS23ASBD+23Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Advent?

155 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 Advent hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

442 bars, about 13:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 114 exercises over 36 sittings, about 26 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 Advent?

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 37, 52, 64 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 442 BARS ANALYSED
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