End Of The Road · Boyz Ii Men

66 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 75 BPM, 4:10 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-28 and 30-36 -- 65.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
END OF THE ROAD · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 49.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 3 sections: 50 keep time, 1 is a fill and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-36.

CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBDS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is End Of The Road?

75 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is End Of The Road hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Road?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 49.

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