Witching Hour · Mayhem

49 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 21-24 and 34-38, and 1 more place -- 51.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WITCHING HOUR · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 9 sections: 35 keep time, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCS1FGD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Witching Hour?

110 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 Witching Hour hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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