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Angel Witch · Angel Witch

Angel Witch · Angel Witch
EXERCISE 17 OF 29
Groove K -- Part K
136 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHKEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angel Witch on drums

153 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-90, hi-hat through bars 91-98, ride through bars 99-114, hi-hat through bars 115-130 and ride through bars 131-153.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-33, 35-36 and 38-63, and 12 more places -- 56.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Angel Witch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 76, 93, 97 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 74-113 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 115-143 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Angel Witch?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Angel Witch hard to play on drums?

61 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 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, 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 Angel Witch?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 76, 93, 97 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED