Open passageways · All Them Witches

122 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 25-33 and 48, and 8 more places -- 47% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
OPEN PASSAGEWAYS · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 45, 49, 53, 74, 103 and 119.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 13 sections: 49 keep time, 6 are fills, 37 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-33.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART S8
PART H
PART S10
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBHJCS8+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Open passageways?

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 Open passageways hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Open passageways?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 45, 49, 53, 74, 103 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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