Moonlapse Vertigo · Opeth

335 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 7:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
335
LENGTH
7:57
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 88-92, 94-100 and 102-108, and 20 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
MOONLAPSE VERTIGO · BARS 88-89
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 41, 57, 66, 86, 87, 93 and 21 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 86-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

335 bars across 21 sections: 211 keep time, 27 are fills, 19 are stops and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 281-301.

PART B
PART J
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AR
OUTRO
BREAK
16 groovesSS21OAUAR+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moonlapse Vertigo?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Moonlapse Vertigo hard to play on drums?

63 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

335 bars, about 7:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 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 Moonlapse Vertigo?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 41, 57, 66, 86, 87, 93 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 335 BARS ANALYSED
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