Blackwater Park · Opeth

242 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 10:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
10:30
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-13, 15-26 and 118-120, and 2 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BLACKWATER PARK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 33, 39, 43, 47, 51 and 13 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

242 bars across 19 sections: 142 keep time, 19 are fills, 7 are stops and 55 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-26.

PART C
PART F
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
PART Y
15 groovesS5CYADE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blackwater Park?

90 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 Blackwater Park hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 10:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 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, 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 Blackwater Park?

16 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 33, 39, 43, 47, 51 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED
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