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When A Demon Defiles A Witch · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 21 OF 76
Groove AB -- Part AB
43 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AB
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When A Demon Defiles A Witch on drums

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.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
86/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-30, snare through bars 31-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-37, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    55
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------------------x---|
When A Demon Defiles A Witch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AH -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  8. Through Part AB -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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