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Eternal Rains Will Come · Opeth

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove Y -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eternal Rains Will Come on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-7, toms through bars 8-11, ride through bars 12-18, snare through bars 19-23 and ride through bars 24-34, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    76
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-gg---xg-gg-x--g|
BD |x--x-x---x-x----|
Eternal Rains Will Come -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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