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Forest Of October (By me) · Opeth

EXERCISE 24 OF 120
Groove M -- Part M (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 120 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART S17
PART B
PART M
PART S
CHORUS
PART S11
PART AN
PART S17
PART M
PART S19
PART BD
PART BS
27 groovesAASS17S11BD+22Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 8
JOIN · 16
LINK · 2
SECTION · 18
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forest Of October (By me) on drums

479 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 24:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
479
LENGTH
24:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bars 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-47, silence through bars 48-51, hi-hat through bars 52-109 and ride through bars 110-115, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 116-117, 128-134 and 137-159, and 3 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    117
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---|
Forest Of October (By me) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 10, 16, 24, 29, 30, 31 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 90 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 -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part S2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-313 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forest Of October (By me)?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Forest Of October (By me) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

479 bars, about 24:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Forest Of October (By me)?

29 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 10, 16, 24, 29, 30, 31 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 479 BARS ANALYSED