The Apostle In Triumph · Opeth

220 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 66 BPM, 17:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
17:07
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 136-148 and 166-168 -- 9.1% 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
THE APOSTLE IN TRIUMPH · BARS 136-137
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 29 more.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 66 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 23 sections: 104 keep time, 35 are fills, 13 are stops and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-148.

PART E
PART N
PART AB
PART AN
PART AY
PART BE
BREAK
17 groovesS23TABAYN+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Apostle In Triumph?

66 BPM, in 6/4, 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 The Apostle In Triumph hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 17:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 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 The Apostle In Triumph?

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
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