An Ending In Itself · Sleeping With Sirens

153 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcorePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-40, 42-46 and 56, and 3 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
AN ENDING IN ITSELF · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 13, 15, 17, 27, 29, 41 and 19 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 16 sections: 74 keep time, 25 are fills, 29 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-40.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART AE
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLGANIH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is An Ending In Itself?

175 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 An Ending In Itself hard to play on drums?

45 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 An Ending In Itself?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 13, 15, 17, 27, 29, 41 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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