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Whiplash · Metallica

EXERCISE 5 OF 46
Groove B -- Part B
105 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART Q
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whiplash on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-104, toms through bars 105-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-139, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-76 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 103-119 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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