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Dirge For November · Opeth

EXERCISE 3 OF 24
Fill at bar 24, 28 and 32 (a small one)
21 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS6IFBE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirge For November on drums

70 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 75 BPM, 5:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-48 and silence through bars 49-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 1 more place -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o---o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Dirge For November -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 28, 32 and 36.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-33 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dirge For November?

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

Is Dirge For November hard to play on drums?

63 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dirge For November?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 28, 32 and 36.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED