The Drapery Falls · Opeth

346 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 93 BPM, 11:01 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
93 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
346
LENGTH
11:01
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 15-21 and 39-40, and 14 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
THE DRAPERY FALLS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 22, 24, 38, 90, 123 and 33 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

346 bars across 21 sections: 206 keep time, 39 are fills, 5 are stops and 85 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 283-305.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART S5
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesCOS3BAS5+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Drapery Falls?

93 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Drapery Falls hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

346 bars, about 11:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 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 Drapery Falls?

24 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 22, 24, 38, 90, 123 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 346 BARS ANALYSED
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