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Witching Hour · Venom

EXERCISE 10 OF 38
Run F1 · Part F (bars 19-24)
80 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesDFBRS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Witching Hour on drums

123 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, snare through bars 25-33 and ride through bars 34-35, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 34-35 and 40-46, and 5 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Witching Hour -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 69, 90, 91 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-22 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 25-55 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Witching Hour?

160 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?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 69, 90, 91 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED