Serenity Painted Death · Opeth

190 bars, 11:00, at 66 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.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
11:00
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 86, 88 and 90-92, and 9 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 66 BPM
SERENITY PAINTED DEATH · BAR 150
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 25, 35, 41 and 16 more.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 19 sections: 146 keep time, 23 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-99.

PART H
PART N
PART P
PART T
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AO
OUTRO
18 groovesXAOAUAFN+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Serenity Painted Death?

66 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 Serenity Painted Death hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 11:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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 Serenity Painted Death?

19 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 25, 35, 41 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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