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The Moor · Opeth

EXERCISE 32 OF 73
Fill at bar 46 (a small one)
96 / 257 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART M
PART M
PART P
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesS17MPJAF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Moor on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
18:04
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-58 and ride through bars 59-81, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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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-|
The Moor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- M, P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-38 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part P -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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