Hope Leaves · Opeth

58 bars, 3:22, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11 and 32-37 -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 69 BPM
HOPE LEAVES · BARS 5-6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 13, 15, 23, 30, 38 and 3 more.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 7 sections: 33 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART S4
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBHPS4G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hope Leaves?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hope Leaves hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 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 Hope Leaves?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 13, 15, 23, 30, 38 and 3 more.

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