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In The White · Katatonia

EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesDS6AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The White on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
48/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, snare through bars 57-72 and ride through bars 73-88, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    17                       18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|--gg--------x-----x---gg|
BD |x-x---x---x---x---x-----|----x-x---x-------------|
In The White -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-57 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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