The Night And The Silent Water · Opeth

195 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 11:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
11:13
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 61-68 and 86-89 -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
THE NIGHT AND THE SILENT WATER · BARS 61-62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 11, 12, 19, 28 and 26 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 20 sections: 90 keep time, 32 are fills, 7 are stops and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-84.

PART A
PART Q
PART U
PART S14
CHORUS
BREAK 4
PART AN
OUTRO
BREAK 5
18 groovesS17ANZAU+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Night And The Silent Water?

78 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Night And The Silent Water hard to play on drums?

54 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 11:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Night And The Silent Water?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 11, 12, 19, 28 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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