The Whistles In The Cold · Worm Shepherd

177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-84, 94-97 and 162-164 -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE WHISTLES IN THE COLD · BAR 82
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 36, 41, 42, 47, 52, 81 and 17 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 25 sections: 75 keep time, 23 are fills, 29 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-21.

PART E
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AU
PART BC
21 groovesZBCTABE+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Whistles In The Cold?

140 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 The Whistles In The Cold hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Whistles In The Cold?

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 36, 41, 42, 47, 52, 81 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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