Demon Of The Fall · Opeth

121 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 69 BPM, 8:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
8:53
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-68, 71-72 and 77, and 1 more place -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 69 BPM
DEMON OF THE FALL · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 20 and 13 more.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 13 sections: 60 keep time, 19 are fills and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-95.

PART B
PART K
PART M
BREAK
PART S
CHORUS
PART AC
PART G
PART AI
BREAK 2
13 groovesS13UBGAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Demon Of The Fall?

69 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Demon Of The Fall hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 8:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Demon Of The Fall?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 20 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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