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Everything Ends · Slipknot

EXERCISE 3 OF 77
Groove L -- Part L
81 / 228 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART Z
CHORUS 5
PART AJ
PART L
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesNVLAJG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everything Ends on drums

228 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and snare through bars 42-57, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-40, 42-48 and 54-56, and 10 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    34               35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-----|--x-------x-----|
Everything Ends -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 33, 49 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- N, V -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-38 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Everything Ends?

204 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 Everything Ends hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Everything Ends?

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 33, 49 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED