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Endless Slumber · Nocturnal Depression

EXERCISE 37 OF 74
Groove U
238 / 300 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART S11
PART E
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHEKS11S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Endless Slumber on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
300
LENGTH
8:13
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-16, hi-hat through bars 17-112, snare through bars 113-145, hi-hat through bars 146-177 and silence through bars 178-184, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Endless Slumber -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 14, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 52 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-41 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 96-113 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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