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Without a Whisper · Invent Animate

EXERCISE 10 OF 49
Run A1 · Chorus (bars 6-12)
52 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART F
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAFCOM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Without a Whisper on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-41, hi-hat through bars 42-50 and snare through bars 51-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 6 and 9-11, and 11 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x--x-x|
Without a Whisper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 38, 40 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-17 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-84 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Without a Whisper?

116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Without a Whisper hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Without a Whisper?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 38, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED