The Amen Corner · Opeth

206 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 10:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
10:45
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131-137, 139-141 and 143-146 -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
THE AMEN CORNER · BAR 131
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 20, 22, 24 and 33 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 18 sections: 71 keep time, 39 are fills, 10 are stops and 73 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-81.

PART E
CHORUS
PART Y
PART S13
PART AJ
PART AR
BREAK 4
17 groovesS18UARYE+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Amen Corner?

105 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Amen Corner hard to play on drums?

60 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 10:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 The Amen Corner?

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 20, 22, 24 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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