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End Of The Line · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 10 OF 55
Groove Q -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDAHQT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play End Of The Line on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31, snare through bars 32-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
End Of The Line -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-21 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-73 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is End Of The Line?

122 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 The Line hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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 The Line?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED