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The Funeral Portrait · Opeth

EXERCISE 6 OF 67
Join Part B to Part D (bars 11-13)
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0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
BREAK
12 groovesS20HJBQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Funeral Portrait on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
12:27
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-55, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Funeral Portrait -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- J, H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-30 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-91 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 113-130 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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