She Was A Witch · 1782

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-41, 43-45 and 47-49, and 14 more places -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SHE WAS A WITCH · BARS 43-44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 93, 97, 99 and 138.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 138
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 10 sections: 115 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-137.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesDBS1S7S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She Was A Witch?

100 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 She Was A Witch hard to play on drums?

37 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 She Was A Witch?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 93, 97, 99 and 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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