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The Whip · Every Time I Die

EXERCISE 26 OF 53
Groove Q
48 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLADBZFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Whip on drums

91 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-31, toms through bars 32-34, snare through bars 35-36, toms through bars 37-39 and snare through bars 40-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 26 and 29, and 10 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
The Whip -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 10, 11, 14 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-70 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Whip?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Whip hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Whip?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 10, 11, 14 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED