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Heir Apparent · Opeth

EXERCISE 3 OF 96
Fill at bar 4 (a small one)
35 / 277 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heir Apparent on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
277
LENGTH
9:50
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, silence through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, snare through bars 41-54, toms through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-66, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Heir Apparent -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- H, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-53 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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