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Enemy of My Enemy · All Them Witches

EXERCISE 13 OF 54
4-bar fill at bar 20
38 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
PART N
PART I
PART AE
PART AM
PART AS
9 groovesBIAEAMAS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Enemy of My Enemy on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-19, toms through bars 20-21, ride through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 40-42 and 52-54, and 1 more place -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1.......2.......
CC |--------------x-|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |----x---------x-|
Enemy of My Enemy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 20, 21, 22, 23, 47 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 26-50 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Enemy of My Enemy?

90 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 Enemy of My Enemy hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Enemy of My Enemy?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 20, 21, 22, 23, 47 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED