Whispers Of Your Death · Counterparts

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-23, 25 and 30-31, and 3 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WHISPERS OF YOUR DEATH · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 37 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 10-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 7 sections: 31 keep time, 43 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-61.

CHORUS
PART Z
PART I
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGZANIS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whispers Of Your Death?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Of Your Death hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 Your Death?

14 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 37 more.

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