Grand Conjuration · Opeth

526 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 10:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
526
LENGTH
10:08
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-37, 39 and 41, and 17 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
GRAND CONJURATION · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 44, 60, 103, 112, 119 and 25 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 119-120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

526 bars across 26 sections: 396 keep time, 31 are fills, 24 are stops and 48 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 448-495.

CHORUS
PART H
PART S
PART N
PART AE
PART H
PART S
OUTRO
BREAK 2
22 groovesCHSNAE+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grand Conjuration?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Grand Conjuration hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

526 bars, about 10:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 33 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 Grand Conjuration?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 44, 60, 103, 112, 119 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 526 BARS ANALYSED
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