← SONGS

She Was A Witch · 1782

EXERCISE 19 OF 22
Join Chorus 3 to Break 3 (bars 104-106)
128 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, BREAK 3
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesDBS1S7S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play She Was A Witch on drums

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.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-56, ride through bars 57-74 and snare through bars 75-138.

The beat

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.

    43               44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|x---x-x---x-x-x-|
She Was A Witch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 69-105 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
START THE COURSE ↑

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