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The Apostle In Triumph · Opeth

EXERCISE 8 OF 107
Groove N -- Part N
33 / 220 BARS COVERED
0 / 107 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 6
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Apostle In Triumph on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-18 and ride through bars 19-44, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    136                                              137
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----------x---x-------x-----------x---|x-------x-----------x---x-------x-------xx-x----|
The Apostle In Triumph -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- AY -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 16-28 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-45 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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