Ending Credits · Opeth

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
ENDING CREDITS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 28, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 5 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 34-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time and 11 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

CHORUS
VERSE
PART I
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCATIRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ending Credits?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Ending Credits hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Ending Credits?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 28, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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