Witches Coven · Mortician

75 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WITCHES COVEN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 36 and 74.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 3 are fills, 5 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAHDJS5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Witches Coven?

130 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 Witches Coven hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Witches Coven?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 36 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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