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An Ending In Itself · Sleeping With Sirens

EXERCISE 16 OF 69
Run H1 · Part H (bars 19-29)
81 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play An Ending In Itself on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-47, toms through bars 48-49, snare through bars 50-63, toms through bars 64-69 and snare through bars 70-101, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-----x-----x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|
An Ending In Itself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- L, G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-30 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-70 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-93 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

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