Whispers In The Dark · Skillet

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20 and 34-41 -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 94 BPM
WHISPERS IN THE DARK · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 29, 46, 50, 54, 66 and 6 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 94 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

79 bars across 9 sections: 49 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-65.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBES1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whispers In The Dark?

94 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 Whispers In The Dark hard to play on drums?

62 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Whispers In The Dark?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 29, 46, 50, 54, 66 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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