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Witchcraft · Pendulum

EXERCISE 17 OF 18
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 59-61)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCBDFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Witchcraft on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, snare through bars 45-53 and silence through bars 54-56, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 37-44 and 62-77 -- 45.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
HF |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
Witchcraft -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-32 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-60 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Witchcraft?

85 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 Witchcraft hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Witchcraft?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED