By The Pain I See In Others · Opeth

415 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 8:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
415
LENGTH
8:11
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 6-12 and 14-20, and 4 more places -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BY THE PAIN I SEE IN OTHERS · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 29, 30, 31, 32, 40 and 52 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

415 bars across 26 sections: 244 keep time, 58 are fills, 26 are stops and 65 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
PART J
PART AD
PART AJ
CHORUS
BREAK 4
23 groovesS26AQJAJAA+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is By The Pain I See In Others?

230 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 By The Pain I See In Others hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

415 bars, about 8:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 103 exercises over 31 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in By The Pain I See In Others?

25 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 29, 30, 31, 32, 40 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 415 BARS ANALYSED
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