Whispers of the Damned · Distortion

216 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 23 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
WHISPERS OF THE DAMNED · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 80, 112, 147, 148 and 216.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 147-148 · LANDS ON BAR 149 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 17 sections: 180 keep time, 6 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-146.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART R
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesGJRAW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whispers of the Damned?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Whispers of the Damned hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 of the Damned?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 80, 112, 147, 148 and 216.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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