Whipping Post · The Allman Brothers Band

82 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 4:22 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 29-30, and 4 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WHIPPING POST · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 23 and 50.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 7 sections: 42 keep time, 2 are fills and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-39.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesBS7HES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whipping Post?

110 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Whipping Post hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Whipping Post?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 23 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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