In The White · Katatonia

132 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 176 BPM, 4:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-31, 41-55 and 57-63, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 176 BPM
IN THE WHITE · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 56, 64, 72 and 1 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 6 sections: 76 keep time, 7 are fills and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesDS6AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The White?

176 BPM, in 6/4, 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 In The White hard to play on drums?

48 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 In The White?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 56, 64, 72 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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