Sorceress · Opeth

226 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51, 53-55 and 57, and 19 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SORCERESS · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 17, 37, 56, 64, 72 and 13 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

226 bars across 17 sections: 133 keep time, 19 are fills, 34 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 161-176.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART S15
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesKUECX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sorceress?

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

Is Sorceress hard to play on drums?

57 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 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 Sorceress?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 17, 37, 56, 64, 72 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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