Bleak · Opeth

214 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 9:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 23-24 and 27-28, and 22 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BLEAK · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 32, 40, 48 and 24 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 19 sections: 159 keep time, 30 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-123.

PART D
PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AK
PART AM
PART U
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
13 groovesXJABDU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bleak?

95 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 Bleak hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 9:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 26 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 Bleak?

23 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 32, 40, 48 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
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