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The Drapery Falls · Opeth

EXERCISE 20 OF 99
Groove J
153 / 346 BARS COVERED
0 / 99 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Drapery Falls on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
346
LENGTH
11:01
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-22, ride through bars 23-38, hi-hat through bars 39-55, silence through bars 56-125 and ride through bars 126-158, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---|
The Drapery Falls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BA -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-131 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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