I Tried Voodoo Once · From A Second Story Window

225 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 8 more places -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
I TRIED VOODOO ONCE · BAR 50
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 12, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24 and 26 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 29 sections: 138 keep time, 32 are fills, 9 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-107.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AK
PART K
PART D
24 groovesPDKAKA+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Tried Voodoo Once?

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

Is I Tried Voodoo Once hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 35 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 I Tried Voodoo Once?

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 12, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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