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End Of The Road · Boyz Ii Men

End Of The Road · Boyz Ii Men
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 12 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBDS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play End Of The Road on drums

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.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
30/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52 and silence through bars 53-66.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-x-|
SD |------r-----------r-----|
BD |x---------x-x---------x-|
End Of The Road -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED