When A Demon Defiles A Witch · Whitechapel

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-58, 123-125 and 127-128 -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 107 BPM
WHEN A DEMON DEFILES A WITCH · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 52 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 12-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 14 sections: 35 keep time, 58 are fills, 12 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-85.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AL
PART AO
PART AS
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesNKS2ABAL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When A Demon Defiles A Witch?

107 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 When A Demon Defiles A Witch hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 When A Demon Defiles A Witch?

21 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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