End of Beginning · Djo

56 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 12-14 and 16-18, and 4 more places -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
END OF BEGINNING · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 53.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 4 sections: 47 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-46.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS2S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is End of Beginning?

80 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 Beginning hard to play on drums?

37 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 End of Beginning?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 53.

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