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Spellbound · Siouxsie And The Banshees

EXERCISE 15 OF 29
Join Part F to Part G (bars 68-70)
87 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART G
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDIS1G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spellbound on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-102, hi-hat through bars 103-110 and toms through bars 111-121.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 35-50 and 79-94, and 1 more place -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---x---x---x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x-x-x-x-|
Spellbound -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 78.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 47-63 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 61-77 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-82 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Spellbound?

149 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 Spellbound hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Spellbound?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 78.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED