Whiplash · Hank Levy

58 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 214 BPM, 1:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-23 -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 214 BPM
WHIPLASH · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 24, 25, 26 and 4 more.

LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 214 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 214 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 214 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 6 sections: 17 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-23.

PART S4
OUTRO
BREAK 4
5 groovesGS6BS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whiplash?

214 BPM, in 7/4, 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?

46 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Whiplash?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 24, 25, 26 and 4 more.

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