White Cluster · Opeth

298 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 128 BPM, 12:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
298
LENGTH
12:53
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-88, 110-116 and 118-125 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
WHITE CLUSTER · BAR 83
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 12, 14, 15, 16, 29 and 25 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

298 bars across 17 sections: 139 keep time, 31 are fills, 12 are stops and 97 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-125.

PART B
PART F
PART R
PART V
PART W
PART S14
OUTRO
BREAK
12 groovesS17AFBRH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is White Cluster?

128 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 White Cluster hard to play on drums?

59 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

298 bars, about 12:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 18 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 White Cluster?

20 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 12, 14, 15, 16, 29 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 298 BARS ANALYSED
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