Endless Slumber · Nocturnal Depression

300 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 8:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
300
LENGTH
8:13
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 81-87, and 26 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 146 BPM
ENDLESS SLUMBER · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 14, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 52 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

300 bars across 15 sections: 194 keep time, 58 are fills, 18 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

PART E
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART E
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHEKS11S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Endless Slumber?

146 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 Endless Slumber hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

300 bars, about 8:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Endless Slumber?

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 14, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 300 BARS ANALYSED
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