The Dirt Whispered · Rise Against

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 17-19 and 21-23, and 7 more places -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
THE DIRT WHISPERED · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 16 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 12 sections: 45 keep time, 22 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-53.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART U
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGKUA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dirt Whispered?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Dirt Whispered hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

79 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Dirt Whispered?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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