Harvest · Opeth

94 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 94 BPM, 5:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-9 and 11, and 2 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 94 BPM
HARVEST · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 16, 24, 27 and 18 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 9 sections: 34 keep time, 24 are fills and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-23.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK 2
6 groovesS9AGPD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Harvest?

94 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Harvest hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Harvest?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 16, 24, 27 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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