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The Leper Affinity · Opeth

EXERCISE 28 OF 67
Fill at bar 67 and 75 (a small one)
109 / 279 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AG
BREAK 2
14 groovesS17MAGGC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Leper Affinity on drums

279 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 68 BPM, 25:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
279
LENGTH
25:05
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-37, hi-hat through bars 38-101, ride through bars 102-109 and hi-hat through bars 110-113, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 47-49, and 4 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- M, AG -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-39 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-96 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Leper Affinity?

68 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Leper Affinity hard to play on drums?

51 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

279 bars, about 25:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 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 The Leper Affinity?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 279 BARS ANALYSED