The Leper Affinity · Opeth

279 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 68 BPM, 25:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
279
LENGTH
25:05
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 47-49, and 4 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 68 BPM
THE LEPER AFFINITY · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 16 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

279 bars across 17 sections: 125 keep time, 22 are fills, 2 are stops and 116 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-94.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AG
BREAK 2
14 groovesS17MAGGC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Leper Affinity?

68 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Leper Affinity hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

279 bars, about 25:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 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 Leper Affinity?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 279 BARS ANALYSED
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