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Adria The Witch · Anco

EXERCISE 25 OF 28
Fill at bar 97 (a small one)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesCAS5FS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Adria The Witch on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-27, ride through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-49, silence through bars 50-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-24, 30-48 and 58-60, and 5 more places -- 73.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10                                               11
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-x-x-x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--x--x-----x-----|
Adria The Witch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 25, 27, 29, 56, 57 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-30 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-62 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Adria The Witch?

119 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 Adria The Witch hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Adria The Witch?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 25, 27, 29, 56, 57 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED