End of the beginning · Djo

105 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 31-89 and 98-105 -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
END OF THE BEGINNING · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 92 keep time, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-71.

CHORUS
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesABS6CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is End of the beginning?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is End of the beginning hard to play on drums?

35 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 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.

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