Lepper Affinity · Opeth

275 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 8:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
8:28
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 4 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 · 100 BPM
LEPPER AFFINITY · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 6, 16, 33, 34, 38 and 18 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

275 bars across 20 sections: 194 keep time, 24 are fills, 13 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-57.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART S11
PART AC
PART AG
PART A
PART D
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGDAS11W+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lepper Affinity?

100 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lepper Affinity hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

275 bars, about 8:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lepper Affinity?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 6, 16, 33, 34, 38 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 275 BARS ANALYSED
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