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The Night And The Silent Water · Opeth

EXERCISE 15 OF 75
Join Break 2 to Part H (bars 19-21)
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PART A
BREAK 2
PART H
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 7
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Night And The Silent Water on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
11:13
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-19, hi-hat through bars 20-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-56, silence through bars 57-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-68, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    61               62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |-x--------------|----------------|
HH |--xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxo-o-o-|
SD |-----x-------x--|-----x---x------|
BD |-x-------xx-----|-x--------x-x-x-|
The Night And The Silent Water -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- S -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, AN -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-21 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-30 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 27-40 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-48 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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