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We Got The Whip · Audioslave

EXERCISE 4 OF 15
Groove C
57 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAES2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Got The Whip on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-80 and snare through bars 81-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-23, 35-45 and 65-71 -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-----x---x-|x---x-----x---o-|
SD |----x-----x-----|----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----xx--------|x-----xx--------|
HF |--x---x-x---x---|--x---x-x---x---|
We Got The Whip -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-82 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is We Got The Whip?

81 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 We Got The Whip hard to play on drums?

47 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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