The Lotus Eater · Opeth

238 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 68 BPM, 18:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
18:08
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 58-60 and 62-65 -- 11.8% 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 LOTUS EATER · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 43 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 10-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 18-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 15 sections: 54 keep time, 49 are fills, 5 are stops and 119 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-36.

PART E
PART P
PART S
BREAK
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS15EPAIS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lotus Eater?

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 Lotus Eater hard to play on drums?

53 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 18:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Lotus Eater?

26 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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