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Sorceress · Opeth

EXERCISE 10 OF 59
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
81 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART C
PART E
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART S15
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesKUECX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sorceress on drums

226 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, ride through bars 38-42 and silence through bars 43-49, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51, 53-55 and 57, and 19 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |X-----X-----X-----------|
HH |------------------o-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--------------x--|
Sorceress -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 17, 37, 56, 64, 72 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 26-58 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-112 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-114 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sorceress?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sorceress hard to play on drums?

57 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sorceress?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 17, 37, 56, 64, 72 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED