Whip It · Devo

99 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-45, 47-53 and 63-95 -- 89.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 158 BPM
WHIP IT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 54.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 4 sections: 91 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-45.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
3 groovesACS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whip It?

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

Is Whip It hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Whip It?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 54.

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