End Of Me · A Day To Remember

99 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

125 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

99

LENGTH

3:10

DIFFICULTY

46/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-17, silence through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, snare through bars 37-42 and toms through bars 43-44, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 8 more places -- 36.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-------x-|

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 16, 36, 43, 44, 52 and 10 more.

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Bars 21-45 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 38-69 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through Part S and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.