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Moonlapse Vertigo · Opeth

EXERCISE 16 OF 75
Run G1 · Part G (bars 26-38)
135 / 335 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moonlapse Vertigo on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
335
LENGTH
7:57
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-58, silence through bars 59-63 and ride through bars 64-87, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    88               89
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x-x-----------|
Moonlapse Vertigo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- S -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 39-67 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-119 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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