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Seer · Witch

Seer · Witch
EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
BREAK
OUTRO
9 groovesBOFHE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seer on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 7:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-27, snare through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-49 and snare through bars 50-57, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 29 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x----x---|
Seer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 49, 75, 77, 79, 81 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-58 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 4 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-106 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seer?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Seer hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 7:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Seer?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 49, 75, 77, 79, 81 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED