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The Dirt Whispered · Rise Against

EXERCISE 23 OF 45
Hold Groove C for 8 bars -- Chorus 2 (bars 17-24)
65 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dirt Whispered on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-32 and snare through bars 33-36, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
The Dirt Whispered -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-17 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-37 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 33-57 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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