Heir Apparent · Opeth

277 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 9:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
277
LENGTH
9:50
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-28, 31-32 and 35-36, and 5 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
HEIR APPARENT · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 24, 52, 64, 65, 66 and 49 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 64-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

277 bars across 16 sections: 107 keep time, 55 are fills, 8 are stops and 101 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-51.

PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S6
PART AI
PART AQ
OUTRO
BREAK 4
14 groovesS16HQAIAQ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heir Apparent?

145 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 Heir Apparent hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

277 bars, about 9:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Heir Apparent?

26 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 24, 52, 64, 65, 66 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 277 BARS ANALYSED
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