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Witness The End · Fit for a King

EXERCISE 10 OF 64
Groove B -- Part B
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART O
PART S14
PART D
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
14 groovesIDSOF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Witness The End on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-25, silence through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-30 and snare through bars 31-35, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 36-38, and 7 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x---x---x-------------|
Witness The End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 31, 35, 43 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-31 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-48 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Witness The End?

130 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 Witness The End hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Witness The End?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 31, 35, 43 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED