Forest Of October (By me) · Opeth

479 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 24:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
479
LENGTH
24:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 116-117, 128-134 and 137-159, and 3 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
FOREST OF OCTOBER (BY ME) · BAR 117
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 10, 16, 24, 29, 30, 31 and 47 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

479 bars across 30 sections: 262 keep time, 53 are fills, 40 are stops and 106 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-159.

PART B
PART S
CHORUS
PART S11
PART AN
PART S17
PART S19
PART BD
PART BS
27 groovesAASS17S11BD+22Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forest Of October (By me)?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Forest Of October (By me) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

479 bars, about 24:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Forest Of October (By me)?

29 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 10, 16, 24, 29, 30, 31 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 479 BARS ANALYSED
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