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Harvest · Opeth

EXERCISE 14 OF 36
5-bar fill at bar 59
47 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Harvest on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42 and ride through bars 43-51, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--ooo-o-ooo-o-ooo-o-ooo-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x-----------|
Harvest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-64 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 11-34 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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