Eternal Rains Will Come · Opeth

182 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76-77, 80-81 and 84-85, and 13 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 119 BPM
ETERNAL RAINS WILL COME · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 and 30 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 9 sections: 95 keep time, 36 are fills, 6 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-107.

PART E
PART J
PART R
PART S4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesYS4AGJAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eternal Rains Will Come?

119 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 Eternal Rains Will Come hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Eternal Rains Will Come?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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