Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Lima Oscar Lima! · Pennines

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45 and 47-61 -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT? LIMA OSCAR LIMA! · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 16, 18, 70, 71, 72 and 17 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 11 sections: 79 keep time, 23 are fills, 1 is a stop and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-125.

PART C
PART H
PART R
PART AC
BREAK
PART S8
PART AT
OUTRO
11 groovesBDACS8CAT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Lima Oscar Lima!?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Lima Oscar Lima! hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Lima Oscar Lima!?

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 16, 18, 70, 71, 72 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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