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Whispers of the Damned · Distortion

EXERCISE 9 OF 56
Run B1 · Part B (bars 17-25)
106 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART A
PART B
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whispers of the Damned on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-63, hi-hat through bars 64-80 and snare through bars 81-112, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    81
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x-----------x---|
Whispers of the Damned -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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