The Baying of the Hounds · Opeth

340 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 15:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
340
LENGTH
15:42
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 106-112, 114-128 and 130-136, and 3 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE BAYING OF THE HOUNDS · BAR 107
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 22, 26, 42, 50, 59 and 19 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

340 bars across 16 sections: 186 keep time, 25 are fills and 114 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-144.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART P
BREAK 2
13 groovesS16AEDPAU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Baying of the Hounds?

130 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Baying of the Hounds 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

340 bars, about 15:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 20 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 The Baying of the Hounds?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 22, 26, 42, 50, 59 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 340 BARS ANALYSED
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