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White Room v2 · Cream

EXERCISE 4 OF 40
Groove H -- Part H
65 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART T
6 groovesCAHOT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play White Room v2 on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, 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 how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-60, toms through bars 61-69, hi-hat through bars 70-94, toms through bars 95-102 and kick and crashes through bars 103-104, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18, and 16 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------------|
White Room v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-51 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is White Room v2?

116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Room v2 hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Room v2?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED