Hocus Pocus · Focus

305 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 6:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
305
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 24-26 and 29-32, and 20 more places -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
HOCUS POCUS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 33, 34, 95 and 21 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 95-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 113-115 · LANDS ON BAR 116 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

305 bars across 29 sections: 163 keep time, 27 are fills, 3 are stops and 97 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 207-227.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
20 groovesELS8S26S5+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hocus Pocus?

185 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 Hocus Pocus hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

305 bars, about 6:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hocus Pocus?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 33, 34, 95 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 305 BARS ANALYSED
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