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When · Opeth

EXERCISE 25 OF 70
Fill at bar 57 (a small one)
90 / 291 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART S6
PART U
PART Z
PART AG
OUTRO
BREAK 2
13 groovesS14MS6UAG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When on drums

291 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 70 BPM, 22:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
291
LENGTH
22:48
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57, ride through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-73, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-56, 66-72 and 137-139 -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
When -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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, U -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 40-110 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 108-137 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is When?

70 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 When hard to play on drums?

55 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

291 bars, about 22:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 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 When?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 291 BARS ANALYSED