Lethean · Katatonia

116 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 4:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 36 and 13 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

PART E
CHORUS
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHPEWN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lethean?

100 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Lethean hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Lethean?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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