I Know the End · Phoebe Bridgers

90 bars, 4:56, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-48 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 73 BPM
I KNOW THE END · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78 and 5 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 72-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 77-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 7 sections: 67 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-48.

PART B
PART C
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGCEFB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Know the End?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Know the End hard to play on drums?

46 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Know the End?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78 and 5 more.

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