Windowpane · Opeth

259 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 7:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
259
LENGTH
7:32
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-40, 57-71 and 73-79 -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
WINDOWPANE · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 44, 52, 80 and 24 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

259 bars across 17 sections: 145 keep time, 30 are fills, 23 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-79.

PART G
PART G
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AE
OUTRO
BREAK
12 groovesMGS17AEX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Windowpane?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Windowpane 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

259 bars, about 7:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Windowpane?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 44, 52, 80 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 259 BARS ANALYSED
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