End Of A Century · Blur

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 18-25 and 31-34, and 1 more place -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
END OF A CENTURY · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 51.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 9 sections: 28 keep time, 2 are fills, 9 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is End Of A Century?

84 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 End Of A Century hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 End Of A Century?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 51.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 55 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Blur drum parts

EVERY BLUR CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →