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Lethean · Katatonia

EXERCISE 21 OF 57
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
77 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lethean on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
76/100

ride through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and snare through bars 65-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21-22, and 3 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                                                10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6....... 1.......2.......
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|----------------|
HH |----g---x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----|x-----x---x-----|
Lethean -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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