Harlequin Forest · Opeth

238 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 9:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
9:30
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3, 5-6 and 9, and 11 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
HARLEQUIN FOREST · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 14 and 42 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 14 sections: 156 keep time, 48 are fills, 1 is a stop and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 204-237.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART V
PART S8
PART AL
PART AT
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCBJALVS8+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Harlequin Forest?

100 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 Harlequin Forest hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 9:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 29 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 Harlequin Forest?

26 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 14 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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