Whiplash · Metallica

163 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 37-43, and 11 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
WHIPLASH · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 27, 28, 32, 36, 44 and 15 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 14 sections: 125 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-131.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 4
8 groovesFKBQU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whiplash?

175 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?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 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 21 times: bars 20, 27, 28, 32, 36, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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