Ghost of Perdition · Opeth

310 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 10:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
310
LENGTH
10:08
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-15 and 21-23, and 7 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
GHOST OF PERDITION · BAR 285
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 75 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 8-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 20 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 32-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 44-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 61-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

310 bars across 30 sections: 139 keep time, 81 are fills, 1 is a stop and 60 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 191-204.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART BM
PART BO
PART BU
PART S27
CHORUS 3
24 groovesBS8SAYBM+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghost of Perdition?

98 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Ghost of Perdition hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

310 bars, about 10:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 32 sittings, about 25 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 Ghost of Perdition?

20 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 310 BARS ANALYSED
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