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Night Witches · Sabaton

EXERCISE 26 OF 37
Join Chorus 3 to Part O (bars 99-101)
98 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART O
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGBAOS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Night Witches on drums

130 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-40, snare through bars 41-49, hi-hat through bars 50-72 and snare through bars 73-81, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 18-20, and 12 more places -- 36.4% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Night Witches -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 41, 45, 49, 65, 73 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B, G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-93 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-121 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Night Witches?

192 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 Night Witches hard to play on drums?

54 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Night Witches?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 41, 45, 49, 65, 73 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED