The Funeral Portrait · Opeth

275 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 12:27 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
12:27
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-55, 58-59 and 62-63, and 5 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 37, 45, 53, 57, 61 and 10 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

275 bars across 20 sections: 135 keep time, 16 are fills, 6 are stops and 97 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-113.

CHORUS
PART J
BREAK
12 groovesS20HJBQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Funeral Portrait?

132 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Funeral Portrait hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

275 bars, about 12:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 Funeral Portrait?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 37, 45, 53, 57, 61 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 275 BARS ANALYSED
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