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Season of the Witch (V2) · Donovan

EXERCISE 14 OF 30
Groove F -- Outro
97 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
7 groovesBCGFK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Season of the Witch (V2) on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, snare through bars 57-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 21-28 and 33-44, and 4 more places -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    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 (V2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 80 and 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-24 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-33 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 56-110 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 5 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-121 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Season of the Witch (V2)?

98 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 (V2) hard to play on drums?

45 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Season of the Witch (V2)?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 80 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED