Burn The Witch · Radiohead

67 bars, 3:34, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28, 33-43 and 47-67 -- 90.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BURN THE WITCH · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 4 sections: 62 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-67.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burn The Witch?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Burn The Witch hard to play on drums?

49 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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