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Witch Image · Ghost

EXERCISE 9 OF 39
Groove H
72 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Witch Image on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-45 and ride through bars 46-59, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-7, 26-31 and 46-51, and 10 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|----------------|
RD |----x-g-x-g-x---|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|
Witch Image -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 45, 53, 57 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 8-42 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-83 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Witch Image?

120 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 Witch Image hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Witch Image?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 45, 53, 57 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED