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Endtime · Katatonia

EXERCISE 4 OF 46
Groove N -- Part N
27 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
BREAK
PART K
PART N
PART S6
PART G
PART L
OUTRO 2
10 groovesS3BNGT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Endtime on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-45, hi-hat through bars 46-66, silence through bars 67-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-103, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 17-19 and 76-78, and 3 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    76
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
Endtime -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G, T -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-46 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-93 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-66 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-92 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Endtime?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Endtime hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 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 Endtime?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED