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End Of The Line · DevilDriver

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove Q -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
11 groovesQWAUK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play End Of The Line on drums

202 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-29 and snare through bars 30-33, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 52-53 and 56-63, and 4 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |------x-------x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-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

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, 29 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- Q, N -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-30 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is End Of The Line?

190 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 Line hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, 29 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED