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Hunting For Witches · Bloc Party

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesCBS1KLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hunting For Witches on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-124 and snare through bars 125-129.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--xx-xxx--x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x--x--|
Hunting For Witches -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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