Endling · Kvelertak

155 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-14, and 26 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
ENDLING · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 32, 36 and 37 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 7 sections: 100 keep time, 43 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesEFBTLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Endling?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Endling hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Endling?

13 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 32, 36 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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