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Half-Tongue · All Them Witches

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EXERCISE 2 OF 31
Groove B -- Outro
18 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesS10DBCK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Half-Tongue on drums

108 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 4:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
64/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-36, ride through bars 37-47, hi-hat through bars 48-59, ride through bars 60-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 15, and 7 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |---------------------x--------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x--------x--------------x-----------------------|
Half-Tongue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 38, 39 and 47.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-35 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-41 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Half-Tongue?

145 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Half-Tongue hard to play on drums?

64 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 Half-Tongue?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 38, 39 and 47.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED