Hexenhammer · Burning Witches

272 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 6:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
272
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-39, 49-71 and 101-119, and 2 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
HEXENHAMMER · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 40, 72, 88, 96 and 14 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

272 bars across 15 sections: 205 keep time, 20 are fills and 33 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-39.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFJHADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hexenhammer?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hexenhammer hard to play on drums?

52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

272 bars, about 6:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hexenhammer?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 40, 72, 88, 96 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 272 BARS ANALYSED
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