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Witching Hour · Manser

Witching Hour · Manser
EXERCISE 22 OF 90
Groove J -- Part J
285 / 531 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART J
BREAK 5
20 groovesFCMVU+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 23
LINK · 17
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Witching Hour on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
531
LENGTH
10:16
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-52, silence through bars 53-59 and ride through bars 60-67, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|
Witching Hour -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-57 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 531 BARS ANALYSED