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§6 · Opeth

EXERCISE 7 OF 56
Groove F -- Part F
80 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBNADANS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play §6 on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-43, hi-hat through bars 44-51, snare through bars 52-75, hi-hat through bars 76-111 and snare through bars 112-113, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-26, 28-34 and 36-42, and 1 more place -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |-x-x-x-x-xx-x--x|
BD |x-x---x-x--x--x-|
§6 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 27, 35, 43, 47, 68, 69 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 11-55 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-76 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is §6?

140 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 §6 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 §6?

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 27, 35, 43, 47, 68, 69 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED