Hunting For Witches · Bloc Party

129 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 8 more places -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HUNTING FOR WITCHES · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 72, 80, 98, 106 and 114.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 7 sections: 110 keep time, 5 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-71.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesCBS1KLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hunting For Witches?

160 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 Hunting For Witches hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hunting For Witches?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 72, 80, 98, 106 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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