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Burn The Witch · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 15 OF 29
Groove H
102 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burn The Witch on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4 and toms through bars 5-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 22-24 and 38-39, and 12 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
FT |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Burn The Witch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 44, 80, 84, 92, 112 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-28 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 82-101 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Burn The Witch?

122 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 Burn The Witch hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Burn The Witch?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 44, 80, 84, 92, 112 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED