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End Of Life · Strid

End Of Life · Strid
EXERCISE 18 OF 58
Run H1 · Part H (bars 66-81)
379 / 482 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART H
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
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play End Of Life on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
482
LENGTH
11:12
DIFFICULTY
81/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-49, ride through bars 50-65, hi-hat through bars 66-161, ride through bars 162-209 and hi-hat through bars 210-223, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
End Of Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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