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Witches · Good Kid

EXERCISE 26 OF 30
Fill at bar 96
112 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesICJOEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Witches on drums

116 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-20, toms through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36 and snare through bars 37-42, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-44, 73-88 and 97-112 -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-66 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Witches?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Witches 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Witches?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED