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Whipping Post · The Allman Brothers Band

EXERCISE 2 OF 19
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whipping Post on drums

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

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, ride through bars 17-21, snare through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-43 and ride through bars 44-48, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-----------x-----------x-----------x---|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Whipping Post -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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