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Ending Credits · Opeth

EXERCISE 15 OF 37
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, VERSE 2
CHORUS
VERSE
PART I
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCATIRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ending Credits on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-54, ride through bars 55-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-76.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xgxgxgxgxgxgxgo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Ending Credits -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 25-42 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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