Whispers of the Evergloom · Dead World Reclamation

313 bars at 224 BPM -- fast, and 5:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
224 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
313
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 15 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 224 BPM
WHISPERS OF THE EVERGLOOM · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

39 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12 and 69 more.

LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 224 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 224 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

35 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

313 bars across 25 sections: 158 keep time, 75 are fills, 52 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-113.

PART N
PART AC
PART N
PART AM
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
16 groovesBNAMVAC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whispers of the Evergloom?

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

Is Whispers of the Evergloom hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

313 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 Evergloom?

39 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 313 BARS ANALYSED
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