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Witches Coven · Mortician

EXERCISE 3 OF 25
Groove H -- Part H
28 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Witches Coven on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-37, silence through bars 38-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-48, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---------------xx-x|
Witches Coven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-37 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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