In the End, Devastation · Lich King

211 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 22-28 and 72-79, and 3 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
IN THE END, DEVASTATION · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 28 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 22 sections: 128 keep time, 34 are fills, 29 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 198-205.

CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCPSAEAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In the End, Devastation?

185 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 In the End, Devastation hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 In the End, Devastation?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
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