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Silent Whisper · Alternative Competition 6

EXERCISE 22 OF 55
Fill at bar 41, 53, 57 and 65 (a small one)
102 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART O
PART E
PART J
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesYJEOCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silent Whisper on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-41, ride through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-89 and kick and crashes through bars 90-93, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7-8, and 12 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-x---------|
Silent Whisper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 29, 37, 41 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C, O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-74 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part O and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Silent Whisper?

107 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 Silent Whisper hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Silent Whisper?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 29, 37, 41 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED