End of the Road · Tanish

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59, 63 and 87, and 2 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
END OF THE ROAD · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 41 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 3-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 49 keep time, 47 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-56.

PART I
PART M
PART N
PART Y
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesACNIATAI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is End of the Road?

120 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 Road hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Road?

19 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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