Season of the Witch · Steve Stills and Al Cooper

207 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 10:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
10:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 28-33 and 36, and 11 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
SEASON OF THE WITCH · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 34, 35, 37, 170, 171, 172 and 2 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 170-172 · LANDS ON BAR 173 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 175-176 · LANDS ON BAR 177 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 16 sections: 167 keep time, 8 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-139.

PART G
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART J
11 groovesIJGVBB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Season of the Witch?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Season of the Witch hard to play on drums?

50 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?

207 bars, about 10:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Season of the Witch?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 34, 35, 37, 170, 171, 172 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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