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The Lotus Eater · Opeth

EXERCISE 1 OF 85
Groove P -- Part P
0 / 238 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART E
PART P
PART S
PART P
BREAK
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS15EPAIS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Lotus Eater on drums

238 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 68 BPM, 18:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 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
238
LENGTH
18:08
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-22, hi-hat through bars 23-37, snare through bars 38-41, ride through bars 42-45 and snare through bars 46-49, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 58-60 and 62-65 -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-------x-x---x-x---x---|
The Lotus Eater -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-39 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-90 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Lotus Eater?

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 Lotus Eater hard to play on drums?

53 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 18:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Lotus Eater?

26 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED