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White Cluster · Opeth

EXERCISE 30 OF 88
Fill at bar 44 (a small one)
90 / 298 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART H
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play White Cluster on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
298
LENGTH
12:53
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37, ride through bars 38-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-73, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    83
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---|
White Cluster -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- R, AF -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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