The Moor · Opeth

257 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 18:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
18:04
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-45, 47-57 and 83, and 3 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
THE MOOR · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 10, 14, 26, 30, 33, 34 and 18 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

257 bars across 17 sections: 112 keep time, 27 are fills, 1 is a stop and 103 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-57.

PART M
PART P
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesS17MPJAF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Moor?

85 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 Moor hard to play on drums?

56 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

257 bars, about 18:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 15 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 Moor?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 10, 14, 26, 30, 33, 34 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 257 BARS ANALYSED
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