Witching Hour · Manser

531 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 10:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
531
LENGTH
10:16
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-49, 82-97 and 106-121, and 6 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 207 BPM
WITCHING HOUR · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 29, 55, 59, 77, 137, 172 and 16 more.

LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

531 bars across 48 sections: 374 keep time, 22 are fills, 33 are stops and 66 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 179-195.

BREAK 5
20 groovesFCMVU+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Witching Hour?

207 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 Witching Hour hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

531 bars, about 10:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Witching Hour?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 29, 55, 59, 77, 137, 172 and 16 more.

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