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Season of the Witch · Steve Stills and Al Cooper

Season of the Witch · Steve Stills and Al Cooper
EXERCISE 4 OF 53
Run S21 · Break (bars 5-6)
101 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Season of the Witch on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
10:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-9, toms through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-69 and ride through bars 70-72, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Season of the Witch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- I, J, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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