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Whiplash · Architects

EXERCISE 27 OF 51
Join Chorus 2 to Break (bars 59-61)
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0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
PART S8
PART Z
CHORUS 4
PART O
OUTRO
7 groovesCOS8ZS4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whiplash on drums

169 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-18, ride through bars 19-25, snare through bars 26-60, silence through bars 61-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 29 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 18, 26, 28 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-95 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-56 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-70 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 69-97 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Whiplash?

190 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 Whiplash hard to play on drums?

55 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 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 Whiplash?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 18, 26, 28 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED