End Of Life · Strid

482 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 11:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
482
LENGTH
11:12
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-48, 82-89 and 91-97, and 7 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
END OF LIFE · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 169, 224, 225, 285, 289, 293 and 7 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 169 · LANDS ON BAR 170 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 224-225 · LANDS ON BAR 226 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 285 · LANDS ON BAR 286 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 289 · LANDS ON BAR 290 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

482 bars across 22 sections: 433 keep time, 13 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-161.

PART B
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART R
PART B
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBRHN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is End Of Life?

135 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Life hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

482 bars, about 11:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 End Of Life?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 169, 224, 225, 285, 289, 293 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 482 BARS ANALYSED
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