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I Know the End · Phoebe Bridgers

EXERCISE 30 OF 31
Run P1 · Outro 2 (bars 82-90)
85 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Know the End on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, toms through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-73, hi-hat through bars 74-77 and ride through bars 78-80, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
I Know the End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E, C, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-36 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED