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Lepper Affinity · Opeth

EXERCISE 2 OF 85
Groove D -- Part D
33 / 275 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART S11
PART AC
PART AG
PART A
PART D
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGDAS11W+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lepper Affinity on drums

275 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 8:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
8:28
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-93, kick and crashes through bars 94-97, ride through bars 98-105, hi-hat through bars 106-109, ride through bars 110-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-123, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 4 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1.......2.......3.......
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x-x---x-x---x---|
Lepper Affinity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 6, 16, 33, 34, 38 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-35 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lepper Affinity?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Lepper Affinity hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

275 bars, about 8:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Lepper Affinity?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 6, 16, 33, 34, 38 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 275 BARS ANALYSED