Finished · Whispering Death

139 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 34-35, and 8 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FINISHED · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 57, 85, 86 and 93.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 85-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 17 sections: 108 keep time, 5 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-126.

CHORUS
PART I
PART K
PART I
PART K
PART I
PART Y
PART AE
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesDIKRY+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Finished?

150 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 Finished hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Finished?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 57, 85, 86 and 93.

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