The Grand Conjuration · Opeth

291 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 10:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
291
LENGTH
10:18
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41 and 43, and 29 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 107 BPM
THE GRAND CONJURATION · BAR 39
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 32, 36, 54, 58, 62, 78 and 16 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

291 bars across 24 sections: 234 keep time, 22 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 216-247.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART W
PART AN
PART AV
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO 2
20 groovesICNANBE+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Grand Conjuration?

107 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Grand Conjuration hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

291 bars, about 10:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 36 sittings, about 25 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 Grand Conjuration?

18 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 32, 36, 54, 58, 62, 78 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 291 BARS ANALYSED
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