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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

340

LENGTH

15:42

DIFFICULTY

57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, ride through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50, snare through bars 51-59 and ride through bars 60-67, and 16 more changes after that.

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.

    107
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x---x-------x-------x-------x---|
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|

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

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- AE, D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 2-23 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part G and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through Part D and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Bars 64-79 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
9. and 12 more sittings after that.