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Hexenhammer · Burning Witches

Hexenhammer · Burning Witches
EXERCISE 18 OF 48
Join Part H to Chorus 2 (bars 47-49)
252 / 272 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART H
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hexenhammer on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
272
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-248, snare through bars 249-250 and hi-hat through bars 251-272.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Hexenhammer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-97 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 152-172 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 245-272 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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