Whole · Basement

61 bars, 4:17, at 56 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 15-17 and 26-33 -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 56 BPM
WHOLE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 20, 21, 22 and 9 more.

LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 56 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 10 sections: 38 keep time, 15 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-33.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesCHWEN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whole?

56 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Whole hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Whole?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 20, 21, 22 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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