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Burn The Witch · Radiohead

EXERCISE 4 OF 6
Groove D
59 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burn The Witch on drums

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

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 3-28, silence through bars 29-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-67.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----x----x-|
BD |x-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

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED