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Whisper · Evanescence

EXERCISE 11 OF 50
Join Verse to Chorus (bars 19-21)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whisper on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-50, toms through bars 51-54, hi-hat through bars 55-60 and ride through bars 61-119.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Whisper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG, C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-29 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-67 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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