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In My Time Of Need · Opeth

EXERCISE 5 OF 47
Groove B (a two-bar phrase)
48 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, PART F
BREAK
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHFWS1S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In My Time Of Need on drums

100 bars, 5:48, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, silence through bars 26-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-33, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 39-41, and 9 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-x---x-----------|
In My Time Of Need -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 17, 33, 37, 38, 47 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- H, F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-18 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part W -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In My Time Of Need?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is In My Time Of Need hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 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 In My Time Of Need?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 17, 33, 37, 38, 47 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED