Whisper · Evanescence

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronicUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 61-63, and 4 more places -- 15.4% 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
WHISPER · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 24, 28, 30, 42, 46, 50 and 22 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 13 sections: 78 keep time, 29 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-118.

VERSE
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDAGCGX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whisper?

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 Whisper hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Whisper?

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 24, 28, 30, 42, 46, 50 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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